Although not widely known in American history, she left an indelible mark on the nation’s capital as a savvy lobbyist and human rights activist. During the 1960s, she worked at the grassroots level to ...

The life of a pioneering women's rights campaigner is being remembered at her family home in Lincolnshire. Emily Langton Massingberd was one of the first ever woman in Britain to stand for election in ...

The first National Women's Rights Convention immediately made an impression when it was held in 1850 in Worcester almost ...

Medicine may be the way we got in the door? : social justice and community health in the mid-1960s -- Thank you for your help ... six children are enough? : the abortion birth control referral service ...

In 1797 the “petticoat band” showed up to vote for the New Jersey state legislature, but only on a technicality. Their impact sent lawmakers into a scramble to shut them out.

Discover the legacy of Mary Church Terrell, cofounder of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, educator, and women’s rights advocate. Photograph of Mary Church Terrell by Addison N.

A quintet of upstate New York members of Congress, including U.S. Rep. John Katko, have introduced a bill that would reauthorize the National Women's Rights History Project Act and expand a registry ...

This follows earlier action by the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture, confiscating hundreds of books from libraries and bookshops in major cities like Kabul and Herat. The titles covered ...