Higher ed.
Second & third generation suffragists had much more access to formal education than the women who came before them. Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida Gibbs Hunt graduated from @<a href="https://twitter.com/oberlincollege" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">oberlincollege</a> in 1884. 🧵 <br /><br />They weren’t the first Black women at Oberlin - Mary Jane Patterson 👇ðŸ¾graduated in 1862. Oberlin was founded by abolitionists in 1833; by the 1880s 5-6% of students were African American. <br /><br />Anna Julia Cooper fought to study with men at Oberlin, not segregated into a “ladies’ course.†She won, and graduated with a master's in math. 40 years later she earned her PhD at the University of Paris. She was 66. <br /><br />Lucy Stone was one of the only women in the founding suffragist generation to go to college; she graduated from Oberlin in 1847. She didn’t leave with fond feelings, though. See 👇🾠<br /><br />Stone was younger than Lucretia Mott, a grandmother of the movement. When she was born in 1793, a university education was out of the question for a girl. In 1864 Mott helped start @<a href="https://twitter.com/swarthmore" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">swarthmore</a>. Alice Paul graduated Swarthmore class of 1905. Suffragist Mabel Vernon was '06. <br /><br />Alice went on to the London School of Economics, but dropped her courses to train with UK suffragettes. After imprisonment & force-feeding, she came home to recuperate. Her idea of rest was a PhD at @<a href="https://twitter.com/Penn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Penn</a>. Her dissertation was “The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania.†<br /><br />In 2004 Swarthmore students voted to name a new dorm Alice Paul Hall. In 2018 Oberlin named its main library in honor of Mary Church Terrell. @<a href="https://twitter.com/ObieLib" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">obielib</a> I couldn’t find anything significant named for Anna Julia Cooper, Ida Gibbs-Hunt or Lucy Stone. #Suffrage100 #BlackSuffragists
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A joint session of Congress, 1864
Initially popular as a curiosity, Anna Dickinson gradually established a reputation as a political thinker whose endorsement was in demand. She stumped for Republicans across four states during the Civil War, the first woman ever paid to campaign. Photo: Mathew Brady c.1863 <br /><br />In gratitude for her successful electioneering, the party invited her to speak to Congress, the first woman ever. <br /><br />On January 16, 1864, with Pres. Lincoln & Mary Todd present, as well as VP Hamlin, Senators, and Representatives, Anna Dickinson spoke for more than an hour. <br /><br />While Lincoln listened, Dickinson enumerated his shortcomings: namely, his generosity to Confederate states and his meager protection for those formerly enslaved. Grandly, she closed by endorsing Lincoln for a second term, as “the Hour” called for a steady hand. <br /><br />Can we take another minute for this? A 21-year-old woman dressed down Abraham Lincoln in front of a joint session of Congress, in the middle of the Civil War. She spoke for 70 minutes without notes while the President listened. And no one’s ever heard of her. #Suffrage100 <br /><br />@<a href="https://twitter.com/DaphneW84611349">DaphneW84611349</a> Yes, definitely. Plus she alienated a lot of people, and had a long, sad end. Stay tuned over the next few days! <br /><br />In Gallman's bio he says that she irritated Stanton & Anthony by siding against them in the 15th Amdt fight. She fought with Frances Willard and refused to support temperance. She was an alcoholic for many years, FWIW. So when things were hard, she had few friends.
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