Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. is an award-winning editor, writer and principal of Robert Cooney Graphic Design.  Co-editor of “The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States,” Cooney has concentrated on America’s activist history of grassroots social change.

In 1993 he began the Woman Suffrage Media Project, which included in depth research into how American women won the right to vote. This led to publication in 2005 of his landmark book, “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement,” full of feminist imagery and period photographs from the early 1900s.

Cooney serves on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s History Project and has served on the National Coalition of Women’s History Sites.

His engaging presentation format uses the extraordinary imagery and period photographs of the Woman Suffrage Movement.  

Lecture Topics Include:
The American Woman Suffrage Movement; Feminist Imagery and Suffrage Iconography

Three Generations of American Suffragists (or specific individuals);

Western Women Win the Vote:

How Women Won the Vote 1840-1920