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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca live tweets @marthasjones_! A nice synopsis of what sounds like a fantastic session on citizenship, sovereignty, and voting rights. Until you can watch the whole thing, read on . . . It's my last day of “school” for the 2019-2020…

Congrats to my friend Laura Wiessen, newly elected to the Gloucester, MA School Committee. In 1879, Mass. allowed women to vote for the 1st time, just for school committee. 5,000 women voted that year, including Louisa May Alcott. (Read 👇) Lucy…

All the women are white, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave. The title of the landmark Black feminist anthology is the essence of intersectionality. It’s also a summary of the suffrage movement & the heavy load Black women…

It's getting late in NYC, so for today's post I will simply point to one of the most satisfying new resources of this centennial year. 👇The @smithsoniannpg exhibit closes Jan 5 - go to DC if you can! Regardless, this gorgeous book is what you want…

Women could vote in Wyoming from 1869, when it was not yet a state. Notably, Wyoming women who joined the voting rolls briefly served on juries. When WY joined the union 21 yrs later, women kept suffrage in the state constitution, pictured here. See…

Work. Throughout the 19th century, even suffragists saw paid work as something poor women _had_ to do, not something women would _want_ to do. Most of the movement’s full-time activists (both white and Black) had family money or a husband who…

Dr @marthasjones_ says we shouldn't talk about suffrage, we should talk about voting rights. There's no before and after, just an ongoing struggle. In that spirit, forgive me sharing a piece about the mechanics of voting today. Our rights depend on…

Women got the chance to learn typesetting when owners needed scabs. Augusta Lewis realized we'd do better unionized, and in 1868 she created Women's Typographical Union 1. It met @ the office of Susan B Anthony's newspaper Revolution. #Suffrage100…

I loved this observation of what it was like to be Nancy Cott and her peers in the '70s. I wanted to know who wrote the only non-patronizing blurb on the jacket. Willie Lee Rose's obit knocked me over.  Finally got my own copy of Nancy Cott’s Bonds…

Building mass appeal almost always means making your ideas less threatening. Once persuaded, new adherents may want the cause to reflect their own more conservative interests. For the vanguard, this instrumental tradeoff rarely feels good. To take…