Featured Resources
- Leadership of Michigan (state level) and Grand Rapids suffrage organizations by year (created by GGRWHC)
- Suffrage History Resource Guide (created by GGRWHC)
The Grand Rapids and Michigan Suffrage Movements
The National Suffrage Movement
Video Resources
- “The Surprising Road to Women’s Suffrage,” University of California
- “African-American Women in Suffrage Movement and Beyond,” AIB Network
- “Women’s Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31,” Crash Course
- “The ‘long, hard-fought battle’ for women’s suffrage,'” Lansing State Journal
- “19th Amendment: Then and Now,” Matter of Fact
Primary Sources
Periodicals
- Michigan Suffragist , Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1914-1917
- The Revolution, New York, New York, 1868-1872
- Woman’s Journal, Boston, Massachusetts, 1870-1917
- Woman Citizen, New York, New York, 1917-1927, limited access
- The Suffragist, Washington, D.C., 1917-1921, limited access
Digitized Archival Collections
- Suffrage Movement in Grand Rapids , Grand Rapids Public Library
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, Library of Congress
- Susan B. Anthony Papers, Library of Congress
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers,Library of Congress
- Carrie Chapman Catt Papers , Library of Congress
- Mary Church Terrell Papers, Library of Congress
- Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music, Library of Congress
- National Woman’s Party Collection, National Woman’s Party
Further Reading
- “The Woman Suffrage Movement,” National Women’s History Museum
- “Nineteenth Amendment 1920,” History Channel
- “African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement,” Turning Point Suffrage Memorial
- “Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights,” National Parks Service
- “The Long Battle for Women’s Suffrage,” Smithsonian Magazine