Browse Items (402 total)
- Collection: Centennial Twitter Collection
Sort by:
It ain't over till it's over
When exactly is the 19th Amendment anniversary? Was it ratified on August 18 or August 26? What’s the difference? Which should we observe?
Read on for answers.
The 19th Amendment cleared Congress in June 1919, 41 years after it was introduced. This…
Tags: Black Suffragists, Congress, Tennessee
Sara Andrews Spencer
Nation’s birthday party, 1876. Huge party planned. No women speaking. No women mentioned. So women stormed the stage.
One of them was Sara Andrews Spencer.
#July4 thread.
The day before the event, Spencer hand-delivered a letter from…
Tags: 1876, Direct Action
Book review
Hi, my name is Ezra, and I’m reviewing the book Finish the Fight, by Veronica Chambers and the staff of the New York Times.
Not all women could vote before 1920, when the 19th amendment was ratified. In 1848, the Seneca Falls convention happened in…
Tags: Centennial Celebrations
Opposing the Indian Removal Act
The first time white women in the US took collective action, it was anonymous.
Four women in Hartford, Conn. wrote a petition opposing the Indian Removal Act. They swore the printer to secrecy, and mailed the first batch of petitions from four other…
Tags: Native rights
#DebForInterior
When I say “Trail of Tears,” can you name where the forced march began & ended? I couldn’t.
This is a two-parter. Tomorrow: white women organized against Indian removal in the 1830s. But first, Native women’s objections. They’ve been defending…
Tags: Native rights
Belva Lockwood & Dr. Walker
Belva Lockwood and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
circa 1912
circa 1912
Tags: Belva Lockwood, LGBT, Mary Edwards Walker
#DCStatehoodNow
Have you heard about the time Frederick Douglass, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Belva Lockwood all occupied the Washington, D.C. Board of Elections?
#DCStatehood Thread
It’s April 14, 1871. DC’s first city-wide election was less…
Mary Grew & Margaret Burleigh
Mary Grew, abolitionist leader & newspaper editor. Her work was respected by all the men in the movement—except her own father. Mary >> back row with fellow members of the Penn. AntiSlavery Society. Margaret Burleigh, her partner of 40…
Sarah Pugh
This is the Pennsylvania AntiSlavery Society in 1851. You might recognize Lucretia Mott, front row in the bonnet between her husband James and Robert Purvis. But who are the other women? And why is this building on fire? Long thread.
The four other…
Tags: abolitionists, Lucretia Mott, Philadelphia