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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…
This sounds really exciting - #OTD news clippings about voting women, every day in 2020. Follow @WomenVote100 #Suffrage100 #KnowYour19th Hey friends!…
Is citizenship earned or inherent? Did women need to prove they deserved the vote? Once the US entered WWI, women were eager to be of…
Anne Firor Scott died last year, having expanded the history of what she called "one half the people." 👇"In 1961 the history department at…
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…
The new #brexitcoin is getting a negative reaction in the UK & reminding folks of a #suffragette protest circa 1913. The @britishmuseum has a…
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…
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…
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…
In 1879, New York suffragists protested the re-election of anti-suffrage governor Louis Robinson. Led by Lillie Devereaux Blake and Clara Neyman. He…