@DailySuffragist is a public history project that began on August 26, 2019. Every day of the 19th Amendment centennial year - and beyond - the column told a new story of women’s century-plus fight for full citizenship. This website archives the project’s Twitter posts; @DailySuffragist was also published on Facebook and Instagram. Ida B. Wells’ image was used as an avatar with the permission of Michelle Duster, Ida’s great-granddaughter.
Most posts were written by R. B. Tiven, a civil rights activist turned historian. Her whole life she wondered how women won the vote if they couldn’t vote. To understand how people who are excluded from lawmaking can change the law, she is now earning a PhD at the City University of New York. Hear her interviewed on the Thought Project podcast about what she learned from the suffrage story and why she decided to go to graduate school.
For ideas, queries, feedback, or to schedule speaking engagements and school presentations that connect voting rights past with voting rights present, contact DailySuffragist [at] gmail [dot] com.
