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#CriptheVote
At suffrage demonstrations in London, Rosa May Billinghurst responded to over-policing by ramming London bobbies with her wheelchair. May, as she was known, joined radical suffragist Women’s Social & Political Union in 1907. She founded the…
Tags: 1912, Direct Action, UK
#DCStatehoodNow
Have you heard about the time Frederick Douglass, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Belva Lockwood all occupied the Washington, D.C. Board of Elections?
#DCStatehood Thread
It’s April 14, 1871. DC’s first city-wide election was less…
#DebForInterior
When I say “Trail of Tears,” can you name where the forced march began & ended? I couldn’t.
This is a two-parter. Tomorrow: white women organized against Indian removal in the 1830s. But first, Native women’s objections. They’ve been defending…
Tags: Native rights
#HeretoStay
Labor & suffrage leader Rose Schneiderman was 8 yrs old when she came to the US. Pauline Newman was 11. Luisa Moreno came from Guatemala as a child. They changed the country: women & all workers are safer because of them. Which I guess is…
#MenOfSuffrage
#MenOfSuffrage Not a pin-up calendar--though maybe it should be. It's a guest post! Stay tuned for a terrific thread by Hélène Quanquin @HQuanquin about her new book on men in the American women's rights movement, 1830-1890. Her subtitle, Cumbersome…
Tags: Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Men
#Vanguard
Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn died just over a year ago. I rely on her work every day. #BlackSuffragists
Tags: Black Suffragists
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Glad @Princeton changed its mind about honoring #WoodrowWilson. After student protest in 2015, the school considered removing his name and didn't. What they know about Wilson didn't change. What changed is that now they're ashamed. Keep protesting.…
Tags: Woodrow Wilson
1918 Flu pandemic
In 1918 flu pandemic killed more men than women - the movement's leaders were unscathed, and the catastrophe gave women a chance to step forward in public life. 👇 Ty @JulieCSuk for sharing & @BlackburnCrudo @Wendelbom12 for the detail.
Anna…