National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Voting Rights for Women: Pro and Anti Suffrage
This website from EDSITEment has a lesson plan that examines the push and pushback for voting rights for women. Using primary sources such as political cartoons and letters, find out why people were opposed to universal suffrage, and...
Library of Congress
Loc: Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era
An overview of women's suffrage during the Progressive Era with links to documents of the time primarily supporting women's right to vote although there is some documentaion of opposition also.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: The Anti Suffrage Movement
Why would a woman be against women's suffrage? Read about the common "fears and emotions" held by Texas women opposing the movement. Also, learn about Joe Bailey, a Texas senator who opposed women's suffrage, and Carrie Chapman Catt, who...
US National Archives
National Archives: Extending Suffrage to Women
The passage of the 15th Amendment sparked the Women's Suffrage Movement. Students will analyze documents pertaining to the Suffrage Movement such as letters from prominent suffragists, anti-suffrage postcards, photos from parades, and...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Anti Suffragists
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to study a speech and anti-suffrage...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Women and the Republic by Helen Kendrick Johnson
Resource provides multiple formats of the entire online text of Johnson's 1913 anti-suffrage book, in which she attempts to discount the major claims made by prominent suffragists.
Digital History
Digital History: Opponents of Suffrage
Read a short description of the many reasons men were opposed to women's suffrage. There were many fears about what the women might vote for or against.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition to u.s. Senate
Take a look at a 1917 anti-suffrage petition submitted to Congress by the Anti-Suffrage Party of New York that this site provides from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: A Strong Comeback
This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: c.b. Randell to Erminia Folsom, 1910
Choice Boswell Randell, who ran for Senate in 1912, was outspoken against women's suffrage. Read a letter in which he "exposes a common argument in the South against women's suffrage." Includes images of the original letter and...
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Opposition to Women's Suffrage
Opposition to the cause of women's suffrage began informally but gradually organized. Ironically, some of most vocal opposition to votes for women came from . . . well, women. How could this be?
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Anti Suffrage Postcard
Here is an example of a "humorous" postcard used by anti-suffragists, which promoted opposition to women's right to vote.