For Women’s History Month, we highlight the remarkable women who shaped Pennsylvania’s Coal Region. From labor strikes to suffrage activism, their impact on industry, politics, and daily life endures. Read powerful stories of resilience, advocacy, and community strength.
On March 18, 1914, the editors of the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader turned over their newspaper to suffragists.
Susan Evelyn Dickinson became a powerful writer and commentator on social issues and events in the Coal Region in the 19th century.
A reporter from the Wilkes-Barre Record interviewed numerous women about suffrage in August 1920.
The women of the Schuylkill County seat exhibited some doubts about the newly ratified 19th Amendment in August 1920.
On November 2, 1920, the women of Williams Valley cast their first ballots under the 19th Amendment.