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.
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My #StateoftheWeek feature is a history of sisyphean effort. From 1867-1918, women lobbied male voters in 56 state referenda, most of them fruitless. The 1st was #Kansas, a disaster that pitted white women against black men. Neither won. Women didn't…
The National Woman’s Party had its headquarters on Lafayette Square, equidistant from the White House and St. John’s Episcopal Church. August 6, 1918 protest thread. A few months after the Woman’s Party moved into its building, Congress passed the…
Great illustrated thread about 1918 flu pandemic in my hometown. Note WWI-era temporary change in spelling of Pittsburg(h).
THREADOn October 4th, 1918, Charles Patterson, a 29-year-old resident of Aspinwall, died in St. Francis Hospital. This was…
What's a Rochester suffragist from Susan B Anthony's day doing on a racist anti-suffrage leaflet in Virginia circa 1920? Read on . . . Julie O’Connor @AlbanyMuskrat recently called my attention to Hester Jeffrey, a prominent African American…