Women’s History
Suffrage parade in Washington, DC, March 3, 1913. View in National Archives Catalog
Women's Rights Topics
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The Equal Rights Amendment: Yesterday and Today Written in 1921 by suffragist Alice Paul, the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced into every session of Congress between 1923 and 1972. A panel explores the proposed amendment and its implications in today's world. |
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10th Annual McGowan Forum on Women in Leadership: Political Campaigns Political communicators and strategists discuss their experiences working on political campaigns on both local and national levels, the changes in opportunities and obstacles, and advice for young women looking to become more involved in politics. |
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Joelle Gamble Closing Remarks | National Conversations on #RightsAndJustice Joelle Gamble, Director of National Network of Emerging Thinkers, Roosevelt Institute, shares her experience as an emerging generation. |
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America's First Ladies: In Service to Our Nation First Ladies have long the power to shape societal attitudes and used their platform to advocate for important issues. This conference focuses on the First Lady as spouse of the Commander in Chief and the actions they have taken, throughout times of war and peace, to support Americans in combat, military families, and the country's veterans. |
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Harriet Tubman: A Woman of Courage and Vision In celebration of the March 2017 grand opening of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor’s Center, we join the National Park Service in presenting a panel discussion examining the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the ongoing preservation of her Maryland |
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Madam C.J. Walker in the National Archives Madam C.J. Walker, one of the great American entrepreneurs of the early 20th century, was born to former slaves and grew up in destitution. |
Additional Videos
Women’s History on the Horizon: The Centennial of Woman Suffrage in 2020
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Women’s Suffrage and the Vote: Funding Feminism
The Equal Rights Amendment: Yesterday and Today
Temperance and Woman Suffrage: Reform Movements and the Women Who Changed America
Women’s History Month Program: The Glass Ceiling, Broken or Cracked?
Women's History Month Spotlight: National Archives Employee Adrienne Thomas
"Feminism" and Women of Color, National Conversation on #RightsAndJustice (Q&A with Soledad O'Brien)
National Conversations on Rights and Justice Women's Rights and Gender Equality
The Declaration of Independence: A Conversation with a Conservator
Historical Footage
Women and the Spirit of '76 (1976)
Decade of Our Destiny: Women—A New Force for Change (1976)
American Women and Social Change—Women at Work (1975)
Space for Women (NASA, 1981)
Women in Defense (1941)
Women on the Warpath (1943)
Education Updates: Women’s Suffrage Posters & Displays
Education Updates: New Women’s Rights Teaching Resources
DocsTeach activities on Women's Rights
DocsTeach page on "Rights in America,” with primary sources on Women's Rights
DocsTeach page on "1970s America,” with primary sources on Women's Rights
The Suffrage and the Civil Rights Reform Movements
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
Failure Is Impossible, a one-act play
Women's Suffrage Party Petition
Examining Rosa Parks's Arrest Record
AOTUS: Remembering Cokie
Ford in Focus: I’ll Race You for It!
Forward with Roosevelt: A First Lady on the Front Lines
Forward with Roosevelt: Eleanor Roosevelt's Battle to End Lynching
Forward with Roosevelt: Missy LeHand: FDR’s Right Hand Woman
Hoover Heads: Tempest in a Teapot – Lou Henry Hoover and the DePriest Tea Incident
Hoover Heads: Who is Anne Martin?
JFK Library—Archivally Speaking: Finding Inspiration in the Archives: Honoring Women at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
JFK Library—Archivally Speaking: Personal Recollections of Corinne “Lindy” Boggs
JFK Library—Archivally Speaking: Restoring the Past in the White House: A Look at the Jacqueline Kennedy White House Restoration Project
NARAtions: The Making of Women’s Equality Day
Pieces of History: On the Basis of Sex: Equal Credit Opportunities
Pieces of History: On the Basis of Sex: Equal Pay
Pieces of History: Minnie Spotted Wolf
Pieces of History: The Hello Girls Finally Get Paid
Pieces of History: Finding the Girl in the Photograph
Pieces of History: Suffrage and Suffering at the 1913 March
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Reagan Library Education Blog: "Remembering the Ladies" Blog Series
Text Message: Meet Sgt. Eva Mirabal/Eah Ha Wa (Taos Pueblo); Women’s Army Corps Artist
Text Message: An Indigenous Woman’s Legal Fight After Forced Sterilization
Text Message: The Closed Door of Justice: African American Nurses and the Fight for Naval Service
Text Message: The First Woman to Fly in an Aeroplane in the United States, October 27, 1909
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Unwritten Record: Queens of the Air: American Women Aviation Pioneers
Unwritten Record: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Title IX with Archival Footage of Sporting Legends
Unwritten Record: International Worker’s Day and the Female Workforce
Unwritten Record: No Mail, Low Morale: The 6888th Central Postal Battalion
Unwritten Record: Their War Too: U.S. Women in the Military During WWII, part 1 and part 2
Explore more in the Unwritten Record
Taking a Stand for Voting Rights
Belva Lockwood: Blazing the Trail for Women in Law
The Rejection of Elizabeth Mason: The Case of a “Free Colored” Revolutionary Widow
From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War EraWomen Soldiers of the Civil War
Winema and the Modoc War: One Woman’s Struggle for Peace
Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802–1940
When Saying "I Do" Meant Giving Up Your U.S. Citizenship
“Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married . . .” Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802–1940
The Story of the Female Yeomen during the First World War
World War I Gold Star Mothers, Part 1; Part 2
“To the Rescue of the Crops”: The Women’s Land Army During World War II
Wearing Lipstick to War: An American Woman in World War II England and France
Rightfully Her: American Women and the Vote
Rightfully Hers, created for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, looked beyond suffrage parades and protests to the often overlooked story behind ratification.
100th Anniversary of Jeannette Rankin as First Congresswoman
Jeannette Rankin's 1917 credentials as a Member of the House of Representatives were displayed at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
Records of Rights
The Records of Rights exhibit in Washington, DC, and online tells the story of women's rights.
The U.S. Food Administration, Women, and the Great War
Women played a key role in food conservation during World War I.
Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations
After leaving the White House Eleanor Roosevelt became the first woman to represent the United States as a delegate to the United Nations.
Amending America: Women's Rights
Explore selected stories about civil rights and individual freedoms featured at our National Conversation on #RightsAndJustice: Women's Rights and Gender Equality in New York City.
A People at War: Women Who Served
Although women were not allowed to participate in battle during World War II, they did serve in so-called "noncombat" missions in the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).. These missions often proved to be extremely dangerous.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Eleanor Roosevelt's Press Conferences
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Women in Politics in the 1950s
Jacqueline Cochran and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)
Women Unite for Ike (online exhibit)
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Records of the Commission on the Status of Women
JFK’s remarks on the President's Commission on the Status of Women’s Final Report
Gerald R. Ford Library
George W. Bush Library
Gale A. Norton, First Woman to be Secretary of the Interior
Ann Veneman, Frst Woman to be Secretary of Agriculture
Condoleezza Rice, First African American Woman to be Secretary of State
Cristeta Comerford, First Woman to be Named White House Executive Chef
Elaine L. Chao, first Asian American woman to be Secretary of Labor
Speeches by First Lady Laura Bush
Mrs. Bush's Remarks to Women CEOs
Selected Images
Astronauts Ellen Ochoa, Julie Payette and, Tamara Jernigan with a National Women's Party banner in the International Space Station in 1999. View in National Archives Catalog
Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson in Japan, May 22, 1953. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Frances Perkins meets with Carnegie Steel Workers, 1933. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
First Lady Betty Ford with members of the National Women’s Party following the presentation of the first Alice Paul Award to Mrs. Ford in the Map Room at the White House, January 11, 1977. View in National Archives Catalog
Swearing-in ceremony for Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State, January 23, 1997 (Photo by Ralph Alswang). View in National Archives Catalog
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office, September 18, 2001 (Photo by Tina Hager). View in National Archives Catalog
Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2021. In this picture, President Barack Obama greets Harris, then California's Attorney General, at a White House meeting on criminal justice on April 4, 2014. View in National Archives Catalog
A woman works on Liberty airplane engines at the Packard Motor Company in Detroit during World War I. View in National Archives Catalog
Amelia Earhart, July 30, 1936. View in National Archives Catalog
Three female lumberjacks walk up a log chute from Turkey Pond in New Hampshire, November 10, 1942. They had been rolling logs in the pond, pulling them to the log chute. View in National Archives Catalog
Native American women served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. Left to right: Minnie Spotted Wolf (Blackfeet), Celia Mix (Potawatomi), and Violet Eastman (Chippewa). View in National Archives Catalog
Maj. Charity E. Adams and Capt. Abbie N. Campbell inspect women of the 6888th Central Postal Battalion, assigned to duty in England, February 1945. View in National Archives Catalog
Native women of the village of Ambler ice fishing for whitefish. View in National Archives Catalog
A woman scientist working for NASA, October 17, 1978 (Photo by Hank Seidel). View in National Archives Catalog
Blanca Tomé of the National Archives Document Preservation Branch, 1974. View in National Archives Catalog
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