In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s ...

Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s, when married women still had no right to property or ownership of their wages; women were shut out of most professions ...

But for some women, it's the latest front in the battle for… Gloria Steinem on the role of women of color in the suffrage movement Feminist writer, author and activist Gloria Steinem said that ...