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Centennial CelebrationsWhat if suffrage leaders from US, UK, Canada, Europe were all in one room? In https://t.co/NfFv1YUYhr they are! Check out the project @CentOfSuffrage…
Should anyone ever lose their right to vote?Spending today @ conf on re-enfranchisement, discussing the Jim Crow roots of why most people lose the rt 2 vote when they go to prison. So today take…
The third musketeerMatilda Joslyn Gage is the 3rd musketeer, the one you've never heard of. As radical as Stanton & Anthony, w/whom she founded organizations &…
The first men to vote for womenIn 1893, men in Colorado voted to let women vote - the first time such a thing had ever happened. 16 years earlier a referendum failed in CO - just…
Annie LondonderryIHO @housingworks @brakingaidsride, today's @DailySuffragist celebrates the liberating force of cycling! This is more for bicycle buffs than suffrage…
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…
What Abigail Adams actually saidAbigail Adams' "remember the ladies" is on mugs & t-shirts, but not her next line: "If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are…
Ask the local activists...Debate re: amending the Constitution vs a state-by-state strategy continued almost all the way to 1920. By the 19th A's passage, nearly 1/2 the states…
Seneca Falls deep diveDaily Suffragist is taking a deep dive for the next while into what happened at Seneca Falls in 1848: what it was, what it wasn’t, who was there, what…
Who was & wasn't thereWe know Seneca Falls had a mixed-sex audience, which was still rare. Susan B Anthony wasn't there: she didn’t join the movement until a few years…