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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.…
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…
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…
Medals & motivationSustaining protest campaigns for months & years is so hard. The UK suffragettes created tangible artifacts to honor their members’ sacrifices and…
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 &…
National Woman's Party nomenclatureWhat was the National Woman’s Party? How did it differ from the Congressional Union? Was that different from the Congressional Committee? The effort…
Taking over the SenatePassage of the 16th & 17th Amdts in 1913 - especially the 17th, which expanded voting rights over opposition from the deep south - proved a…
The Original Women's MarchThe 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession really was the original Women’s March. It called women from around the country to Washington, DC for Inauguration…
Why Alice & Lucy threatened NAWSAAlice Paul & Lucy Burns didn’t rebel against the mainstream suffrage organization. It kicked them out. Natl Am. Woman Suffrage Assoc was an…