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Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S.

January 31, 2016

The online journal and database, WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, is engaged in several crowdsourcing projects to create a new Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S. For some months we have been engaged in recruiting volunteers to write brief biographies of Black women suffragists and militant suffragists […]

Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists: A Crowdsourcing Project

October 2, 2015

To complement a recent project to crowdsource biographical sketches of White House picketers for woman suffrage in 1917-1919, the editors of Women and Social Movements in the United States invite history faculty, students, and independent historians to join in preparing biographical sketches of Black women suffragists whose writings we are publishing on our online journal […]

The Western Association of Women Historians was founded in 1969 to promote the interests of women historians both in academic settings and in the field of history generally. The WAWH is the largest of the regional women's historical associations in the United States. Although the majority of our members come from the Western United States, we have members from across the United States, Canada, and other countries and encourage people from any geographic area to join and participate in the organization. The WAWH … Read more

Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists: A Crowdsourcing Project

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