The bold suffragettes you likely didn’t learn about in school

Chances are, if you were asked to name two women who fought for their right to vote, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton would roll off your tongue — or at least their names may be lodged deep in your brain somewhere. But there are many more women who were involved in the fight, and they're not all white. You also likely didn't learn about them in history class. 

The 19th Amendment opened the doors for women to vote throughout the country when it was ratified on August 18, 1920. It was a long fight to secure this freedom, with roots stretching back to the mid-19th century when the women's suffrage movement began. Read more...

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