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The FreemanMary Ann Shadd Cary edited The Freeman in Canada. She moved there in 1850s to protest Fugitive Slave Act. Post-Civil War she returned & entered Howard…
Who was & wasn't thereWe know Seneca Falls had a mixed-sex audience, which was still rare. Susan B Anthony wasn't there: she didn’t join the movement until a few years…
The New Departure - Mary Ann Shadd Cary & Frederick DouglassIn the spring of 1871, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frederick Douglass led at least 63 Black & white women to attempt to register to vote in Washington…
The most significant manI’m chasing down a citation, so you’ll have to wait to hear from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, one of few Black women on the record in these debates.…
A Black man, a white woman, and suffrage in 1850s AlbanyIn New York it is said that activists come to Albany, not from it. True or not, in the 1850s and today Albany has produced some truly marvelous…
#CiteBlackWomenA generation before the great #IdaBWells, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper spoke for Black women in a fierce debate that included Frederick Douglass,…
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, part III am particularly fond of Josephine St Pierre Ruffin because she was an avid defender of Ida B Wells. Josephine moved among society women both white…
A valentine to Frederick DouglassMust be a busy day for my friends @SuffrageBdays! Both Frederick Douglass & Anna Howard Shaw were born #OTD. #DouglassDay celebrations this year…
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…
StatuesIn NYC we have statues of two great suffragists. They've been standing watch over neighborhood protests these weeks. 👈Frederick Douglass at…