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Centennial Celebrations
What 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 and the amazing, interactive painting by Mireille Miller. #Suffrage100 #KnowYour19…
Tags: Centennial Celebrations
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 a look at stories from the present, and a novel way to expand the vote: https://t.co/WyrdPcL1we…
Tags: Prison, Voting rights
The third musketeer
Matilda Joslyn Gage is the 3rd musketeer, the one you've never heard of. As radical as Stanton & Anthony, w/whom she founded organizations & edited History of Woman Suffrage. She critiqued religion, demanded separation of church & state,…
Tags: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Newspapers
The first men to vote for women
In 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 like in KS, MI, NE, OR, RI, WA & SD. So how'd we finally win? [1/2] #StateOfTheWeek…
Tags: 1893, Black Suffragists, Colorado, labor, State Spotlight
19th century slut-shaming
Bloomers 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 knee-length skirt. But the floor-length, corseted dress "respectable" women otherwise wore made it hard to…
Tags: Clothing
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 let women vote at least partially. Long before any part of the country was "flyover territory,"…
Tags: 1893, State Spotlight
Seneca Falls deep dive
Daily 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 happened, and how the story got told. #Suffrage100 #WomensEqualityDay #EqualityCantWait…
Tags: 1848, Seneca Falls
Who was & wasn't there
We 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 later. Frederick Douglass was the most famous person in attendance, and played a pivotal role. Stay…