Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement

An account of how the women's rights movement found fertile ground on Long Island and succeeded thanks to the suffragettes' classic grassroots campaign.

For seventy-two years, American women fought for the right to vote, and many remarkable ladies on Long Island worked tirelessly during this important civil rights movement. The colorful—and exceedingly wealthy—Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was undoubtedly the island's most outspoken and controversial advocate for woman suffrage. Ida Bunce Sam...