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"How safe we all felt when she had the floor."Spending a last day on Ernestine Rose: as great a speaker as Anna Dickinson, as radical as Lucretia Mott. There were few Jews in the suffrage movement…
"Illegal" votersWe don’t have an affirmative right to vote under the Constitution. There is no explicit promise that citizen = voter. But from 1868-1872, after the…
"Rabbi" Ray FrankSometimes your heroes really disappoint. I’m not talking about Stanton or Anthony or Alice Paul. I’m talking about Ray Frank. Frank was the first…
"Unladylike"Have you seen the PBS series Unladylike? It features suffragists like Mary Church Terrell, Rose Schneiderman, and Tye Leung Schulze alongside other…
"We are all bound up together..."Watch Frances Watkins Harper give her most famous speech! Or as close to it as we can get, thx to @NYHistory. @ArianaDeBose plays Frances delivering…
@SheMadeHistory1I see a lot of women's history, and this Mom/Daughter project is absolutely the coolest thing ever. A new woman every day, Cindy Sherman style. I'm in…
#1619 ProjectSo lucky to have been in the room for this evening. Began yesterday with w/@sandylocks's powerful words & today learning w/ her, @jamalgreene…
#BlackSuffragistsToday's post is this great montage of Black women suffrage leaders. So worth 3 minutes, and a preview of some of what I'll cover over the next few…
#BreonnaTaylorMattersMore extraordinary Kentucky women, in honor of #BreonnaTaylor. Dr. Mary Britton is featured alongside other journalist-suffragists like Lucy Wilmot…
#CiteBlackWomenA generation before the great #IdaBWells, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper spoke for Black women in a fierce debate that included Frederick Douglass,…