National Woman’s Party – The UncommonWealth

“Shoulder to Shoulder on the Picket Line”: Virginia Women Fight for Voting Rights

"I have been kept from the privilege of incoming or outgoing mail for over the past week and am now locked in a small cell…

Mari JulienneJuly 22, 2020

Archives Education & Programming

“Freedom, justice and true democracy”: The Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Thousands of Virginia women joined the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to fight for their voting rights after it was organized in 1909. A few…

Mari JulienneJune 10, 2020

Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections

Virginia’s General Assembly and the Nineteenth Amendment

In June 1919, Congress sent the proposed Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women's right to vote, to the states for ratification. By the end of the year,…

Brent TarterFebruary 12, 2020

Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections

Denied A Voice, They Refused to Be Silent

T he Library of Virginia's exhibition We Demand: Women's Suffrage in Virginia is now open. This year marks the centennial of the ratification of the…

Mari JulienneJanuary 22, 2020

Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections

“Unwarrented, Unnecessary, Undemocratic:” The Virginia General Assembly Responds to the Proposed Nineteenth Amendment in 1919

In June 1919 Congress proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing women’s right to vote (with only one vote in favor…

Mari JulienneSeptember 4, 2019