To mark the centenary of woman suffrage, the National Women’s History Museum presented a two-year commemorative initiative, “Determined to Rise:” Women’s Historical Activism for Equal Rights. This series of public programming featured scholarly panels, public events, and lively discussions on the American women's rights movement from the early 1830s when African-American women abolitionist groups organized to fight for freedom, personhood, and women’s rights to the ratification of the 19^th Amendment in 1920.

“Determined to Rise” shapes a broader understanding of the woman suffrage movement throughout the turn of the century, acknowledging not only the achievements resulting in the ratification of the 19^th Amendment, but also its profound limitations.