This Google Site contains a series of primary and secondary sources on the struggle for women's suffrage in Massachusetts. Women’s suffrage, also called woman suffrage, is the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections.

Each page consists of a contextual paragraph that provides background information for the document(s) and excerpts from one or more primary documents. Some of the documents have been edited for length. As you analyze the documents, consider both the original source and its author’s point of view. The companion Google Form contains questions about the documents.

The Documents:

Document A: Excerpt from Harriet Taylor’s The Proceedings of the Woman’s Rights Convention, held at Worcester, October 23 & 24, 1850, 1851

Document B: Excerpt from Susan B. Anthony’s speech titled “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?,” 1873

Document C: Excerpt from Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History from 1774 to 1881, Harriet Hanson Robinson, January 1883

Document D: Political cartoon by Laura Foster titled “Looking Backward” published by Life Magazine, August 22, 1912

Document E: A poster titled “Home!” distributed by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1915

Document F: Excerpt from The Boston Daily Globe article “Antis Plan Silent Demonstration at Suffrage Parade Tomorrow,” October 15, 1915

Document G: Excerpt from an article titled “The Women’s Rights Movement, 1848–1920,” 2016