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19th century slut-shamingBloomers weren't invented by Amelia Bloomer - she heard about them from a woman who saw them in Europe. They were huge! Parachute pants under a…
19th, the MusicalAlice Paul seems to be the star of #19theMusical, which just ran a few nights @WomenInTheArts. It's focused on the last decade of the movement: the…
38 statesThe Equal Rights Amendment was drafted by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman in 1923. Alice Paul devoted the rest of her life to its passage. She…
500 years of women's workMy first surprise of the exhibit #500yearsofwomenswork @grolierclub today was that it was packed. About 100 people came to hear the…
5th grade reportsKvelling: my son's 5th grade presentation on garment workers, WTUL, #TriangleFire. I gave him @AnneliseOrleck1 & Barbara Wertheimer, but hadn't…
6.6% of the nationThis is not a thread about the pros and cons of 3rd-party candidates. This is just to say that Woodrow Wilson became President of the United States…
A Black man, a white woman, and suffrage in 1850s AlbanyIn New York it is said that activists come to Albany, not from it. True or not, in the 1850s and today Albany has produced some truly marvelous…
A Dyke on HorsebackA Dyke on Horseback ~ One more story from the 1912 New York City suffrage marches~ 🐴thread courtesy of @WendyLRouse Annie Rensselaer Tinker…
A genius for publicityHad the 1913 march gone flawlessly it would have been less of a success. Alice Paul immediately realized that the violent disruption and police…
A Headstone for Dr. CrumplerOh, how wonderful! I'm so glad Dr. Crumpler is being honored this way. I've been helping @womenthevotenys find New York gravesites to honor…