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Women went to jail for the vote, part I
Women went to jail for the vote at three significant periods in American history. In the modern civil rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, Diane Nash and Ella Baker designed strategies for which men got credit. In the last years before the 19th Amdt,…
Tags: Direct Action, New Departure, Prison, Susan B Anthony
Women voting
This sounds really exciting - #OTD news clippings about voting women, every day in 2020. Follow @WomenVote100 #Suffrage100 #KnowYour19th
Hey friends! I'm experimenting with digital research/teaching for the suffrage centennial. Each day in 2020,…
Tags: Centennial Celebrations
Women in academia
Anne Firor Scott died last year, having expanded the history of what she called "one half the people." 👇"In 1961 the history department at Duke found itself with an opening and invited her to fill it 'until we can find somebody.'"Â
Tags: Higher education
Women have always worked
Devoting all week to working women. Stories fr labor historian Barbara Mayer Wertheimer's 1976 book. "She always believed that it was women who 'will be the ones to organize other women...to transmit enthusiasm and confidence in trade unionism.'"…
Tags: labor
Women & money
The new #brexitcoin is getting a negative reaction in the UK & reminding folks of a #suffragette protest circa 1913. The @britishmuseum has a #votesforwomen coin and the backstory: Circulating currency can be a powerful vehicle. Just sayin'.…
Tags: Harriet Tubman, UK
Why you've never heard of this composer
I appreciate that @BlachlyJames was honest when the NYT asked why he initially hesitated to conduct Ethel Smyth’s work. “I have to confess I had this sense that if I hadn’t heard of her, then she must not be very good.†Suffrage &…
Tags: Emmeline Pankhurst, LGBT
Why you've never heard of Anna Dickinson
I spent the whole week on Anna Dickinson because she was very, very famous in her day and is almost lost to history. I know a lot about suffrage for a non-academic, and I had never heard her name before the @smithsonianNPG exhibit. In “America’s Joan…
Tags: 15th Amendment, Anna Dickinson, AWSA, NAWSA, Racism
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women 1. Because pockets are not a natural right. 2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them. 3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them. 4. Because…
Tags: Alice Duer Miller, satire
Why we never had school suffrage in New York
In 1879, New York suffragists protested the re-election of anti-suffrage governor Louis Robinson. Led by Lillie Devereaux Blake and Clara Neyman. He had vetoed a bill that would have let women sit on school boards. It was rare for women to openly…
Tags: 1879, Direct Action, New York