History: A Guide to United States Historical Research
Suffrage Movement
Primary Source sets of particular interest:
- Writings of Black Suffragists
New Names to Search for in the Suffrage Movement
The history of women's suffrage in the United States often left out important Black, Indigenous, Latina and Asian women who contributed to the movement.
Here are some names you might not know that will be useful to find new perspectives on the history of the suffrage movement in the United States.
Mary Church Terrell
Frances Ellen Watkins Haper
Sarah Parker Remond
Fannie Barrier Williams
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Women's Baptist Convention
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Dr. S. K. Chan
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Maria de Guadalupe Evangelina Lopez de Lowther
Emma Kaʻilikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuina
You can also look at photos at the National Portrait Gallery Exhibit Votes for Women: Portraits of Persistence or the the Smithsonian exhibit Creating Icons: How We Remember Woman Suffrage, especially the section Who Was Left Out of the Story?
Japanese Internment
The University of California Berkeley Libraries maintains an excellent guide on primary sources relating to Japanese internment including oral histories.
Good places to start for narratives:
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA): Personal Experiences
Berkeley Japanese Confinement Oral Histories
Telling Their Stories by Urban School of San Francisco
Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment