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Taking over the Senate
Passage of the 16th & 17th Amdts in 1913 - especially the 17th, which expanded voting rights over opposition from the deep south - proved a federal amendment strategy was viable. So Alice Paul & Lucy Burns spent a hot July plotting to force…
Tags: 1913, Alice Paul, Direct Action, Lucy Burns
Crip Camp
Today's post is a valentine to the best movie I've seen all year.💜💜💜 Every suffrage buff, every activist, every person who is or may become disabled (that's all of us!) should see @CripCampFilm. Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Tags: Direct Action, film
Mrs. Pankhurst at Carnegie Hall
While Alice Paul was in London’s Holloway Prison with a feeding tube forced down her nose, Emmeline Pankhurst traveled to the US to raise funds and promote the cause. American women were fascinated to see the British radical up close. 🧵 On…
Tags: 1909, Barnard, Direct Action, Emmeline Pankhurst, NAWSA, Prison, UK, Vassar, WTUL
Declaration of Rights & Articles of Impeachment
The 1876 Declaration of Rights drafted by Matilda Joslyn Gage for the Centennial direct action (see yesterday) included nine articles of impeachment. They are still arresting today; I’ll summarize some and quote directly from others. 👉 BILLS OF…
Tags: 1876, Direct Action
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
#CriptheVote
At suffrage demonstrations in London, Rosa May Billinghurst responded to over-policing by ramming London bobbies with her wheelchair. May, as she was known, joined radical suffragist Women’s Social & Political Union in 1907. She founded the…
Tags: 1912, Direct Action, UK
Medals & motivation
Sustaining protest campaigns for months & years is so hard. The UK suffragettes created tangible artifacts to honor their members’ sacrifices and motivate them to keep going. 🎖ï¸thread. Women who had served time in prison were awarded a…
Tags: Alice Paul, Direct Action, Lucy Burns, UK
Teaching Americans to be bolder
When US suffragists began street demonstrations in 1910, the women in the UK had already become more brazen. They were holding huge demonstrations, intentionally provoking arrest, and more. One of their leaders came to the US in 1907 to encourage us…
Out past curfew
Cities around the country instituted curfews this week to restrict protest, so it’s a good time to recall when suffragists were out after dark. In 1912, New York City suffragists lit the darkest night of the year with a massive nighttime…
Tags: 1912, Direct Action, New York City, Parades
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…