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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…
Medals & motivationSustaining protest campaigns for months & years is so hard. The UK suffragettes created tangible artifacts to honor their members’ sacrifices and…
Alice Paul's first arrestAlice Paul was first arrested in London. On June 29, 1907 she joined the Pankhursts storming the House of Commons, frustrated the Prime Minister…
Inauguration DayWe used to inaugurate the U.S. president in March, not January. 107 years ago today, thousands of women massed on Washington to protest the…
38 statesThe Equal Rights Amendment was drafted by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman in 1923. Alice Paul devoted the rest of her life to its passage. She…
Happy Birthday, Alice PaulAlice Paul was born 135 years ago today. The Suffrage Birthday Project @SuffrageBdays crams many of her accomplishments into this short thread.…
19th, the MusicalAlice Paul seems to be the star of #19theMusical, which just ran a few nights @WomenInTheArts. It's focused on the last decade of the movement: the…
American JoshuaMy adult interest in the suffrage movement began with Alice Paul. If Stanton & Anthony - and other women whose names I didn’t yet know - were…
Meet Lucy BurnsLucy Burns. She and Alice Paul were the Stanton & Anthony of the 3d generation. They met in jail in the UK learning from the Pankhursts &…