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Unidentified Nurse

Two women standing in front of the door of a church.

Helen Hoy Greeley was an early and significant voice for the women’s suffrage movement. Born in Albany, New York in 1878, she received her law degree and began to practice in 1903. Se became deeply involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement. In…

The image attached shows the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The year is unknown. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. The women’s suffrage movement spread nationwide, though some areas faced harsher conditions and…

The image comes from the Department of Historic Resources.   In the article attached, from 1915, the Richmond Evening Journal is writing to warn the citizens of what women could do with the right to vote.  It highlights where there are more colored…

These two images show members of the state WCTU, including Mrs. R. E. Trice, Sr., in the close-up. Women who felt that alcohol was destroying their families and their society formed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was a prestigious…