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Deeds, Not Words
British women fought for the vote under the banner “Deeds, Not Words.” Looking at this image of a cricket club set ablaze in 1913, I marvel at their rage, expressed. According to @suffragettelife - a kindred spirit across the Atlantic - the arsonists…
Tags: Direct Action, Emmeline Pankhurst, UK
Foreign Policy, Public Embarrassment
The first time the National Woman’s Party “Silent Sentinels†were arrested, they had been picketing the White House every day for six months. Why were they suddenly being charged? Simple. They embarrassed Pres. Wilson in front of the Russian…
Happy birthday, Mary Ritter Beard
I love this photo, though I doubt the accuracy of its caption. I love that the young African-American man (boy?) is the only one aware of being photographed. I love the woman in the right foreground, mid-sentence. 🧵 The @librarycongress says the…
Tags: 1913, Direct Action, Mary Ritter Beard
How impact litigation works
1. Like all good civil disobedience actions, Susan B Anthony’s was well-planned. Century of Struggle describes the whole effort: she recruited more than a dozen women to vote together, “assured herself of first-rate legal advice, and promised the…
How we learned to protest
British suffragists got angry and impatient before the Americans did. Their breakaway radical faction became known as “suffragettes†- it was meant as a slur, until they adopted it proudly. [Protest history thread.] Emmeline Pankhurst and her…
I demanded that I should be arrested properly
After Susan B. Anthony voted in 1872, a deputy federal marshal came to her door and asked her to accompany him downtown. “What for?" she asked. "To arrest you," he said. "Is that the way you arrest men?" "No." "Then I demanded that I should be…
Tags: 1872, Direct Action, New Departure, Susan B Anthony
Ida fights segregation on the railroad
Memphis was rebuilding when Ida B. Wells arrived in the 1880s. After the yellow fever epidemic, the city levied a tax to build drainage systems & fight mosquitoes. The city fathers were white, but a growing Black population garnered some power:…
Tags: Direct Action, Ida B Wells, Racism, Tennessee
Inauguration Day
We used to inaugurate the U.S. president in March, not January. 107 years ago today, thousands of women massed on Washington to protest the presidential inauguration and demand equal rights. These women 👇hiked from NYC. Thread. Alice Paul &…
Tags: 1913, Alice Paul, Direct Action, Lucy Burns
July 4, 1876
One of the myths of the suffrage story is that nothing radical or confrontational happened before 1913. Not so. On July 4, 1876, at the national Centennial celebration in Philadelphia, suffragists stormed the stage. Thread. They had asked for a place…
Tags: 1876, Direct Action, Susan B Anthony
Lafayette Square circa 1918
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…
Tags: 1918, Direct Action