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Lucy Stone's tax protestMr. Mandeville, Tax Collector, Sir:--Enclosed I return my tax bill, without paying it. My reason for doing so is, that women suffer taxation, and yet…
Mary Ann Shadd Cary & the Centennial actionBy the 1876 US centennial, women had been demanding the vote for nearly 30 years. The light bulb was not yet invented. As the National and the…
Medals & motivationSustaining protest campaigns for months & years is so hard. The UK suffragettes created tangible artifacts to honor their members’ sacrifices and…
Memphis Streetcar boycottWithin weeks of the murders, so much of Black Memphis had left town that the streetcar ridership collapsed. Men from the City Railway Co came to Ida B…
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…
No Taxation Without RepresentationNo taxation without representation. Among the women who refused to pay taxes in whose levy and use they had no say are: Lucy Stone, New Jersey 1858…
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…
Picketing the White House beginsSuffragists picketed the White House from 10 am-6pm every day but Sundays. They continued - attacked by mobs, arrested daily - for more than two…
Power concedes nothingWisdom from a great leader (and suffragist): "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate…
Sara Andrews SpencerNation’s birthday party, 1876. Huge party planned. No women speaking. No women mentioned. So women stormed the stage. One of them was Sara Andrews…