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How we learned to protestBritish suffragists got angry and impatient before the Americans did. Their breakaway radical faction became known as “suffragettes” - it was meant as…
Out past curfewCities 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…
Teaching Americans to be bolderWhen US suffragists began street demonstrations in 1910, the women in the UK had already become more brazen. They were holding huge demonstrations,…
Medals & motivationSustaining protest campaigns for months & years is so hard. The UK suffragettes created tangible artifacts to honor their members’ sacrifices and…
#CriptheVoteAt suffrage demonstrations in London, Rosa May Billinghurst responded to over-policing by ramming London bobbies with her wheelchair. May, as she was…
July 4, 1876One 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…
Declaration of Rights & Articles of ImpeachmentThe 1876 Declaration of Rights drafted by Matilda Joslyn Gage for the Centennial direct action (see yesterday) included nine articles of impeachment.…
Mrs. Pankhurst at Carnegie HallWhile 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…
Crip CampToday's post is a valentine to the best movie I've seen all year.💜💜💜 Every suffrage buff, every activist, every person who is…
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…