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The first National Women's Day was celebrated on February 28, 1909.
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A history of women's suffrage around the world.
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Title page of the 1792 American edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication...
Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Christine de Pisan.
From Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française des origines à 1900 by L. Petit de Julleville, 1896
Mary Wollstonecraft, oil on canvas by John Opie, c. 1797; in the National Portrait...
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Lucretia Mott.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-42559)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) with Susan B. Anthony.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC USZ 62 37938)
Sojourner Truth.
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
National convention of the Women's Trade Union League, 1913.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-63378)
Emma Goldman.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-DIG-ggbain-21014)
Emmeline Pankhurst in prison clothes, 1908
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The Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States.
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Two Guerrilla Girls before the start of their exhibition “The Art of Behaving Badly”...
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Queen Latifah attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California,...
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