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Working women
Work. Throughout the 19th century, even suffragists saw paid work as something poor women _had_ to do, not something women would _want_ to do. Most of the movement’s full-time activists (both white and Black) had family money or a husband who…
Tags: 1903, Harriot Stanton Blatch, labor, WTUL
Wealthy women in the movement
It’s easier to research rich suffragists than poor ones. Wealthy women’s contributions to the movement were well-documented, their correspondence is more likely to be preserved, and they were profiled and gossiped about in the papers. One rich…
Tags: funding, Harriot Stanton Blatch, New York
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…
Suffrage colors explained
In writing about what it means to “look like a mom,†@VVFriedman reported that the yellow t-shirts Portland moms wear are intended to evoke sunshine, joy, warmth. The protesters even carry sunflowers to reinforce - which connects them directly to…
Seneca Falls at 60
Seneca Falls wasn’t really a thing until 25 years after it happened. The suffrage movement had split, and Susan B Anthony & ElizCadyStanton sought to establish authority for their faction by crafting an origin story at Seneca Falls. (New…
Tags: 1908, Harriot Stanton Blatch, NAWSA, Seneca Falls
Poll watching while female
These women are being arrested for poll watching while female. It’s New York City, September 1910, the Democratic primary. Before the day is over six women at four different precincts in Hell’s Kitchen have been hauled before the magistrate court.…
Mystery inscription
The folks at Argosy Books found me this copy of Harriot Stanton Blatch's memoir. Inside is an intriguing inscription from her daughter Nora Stanton Barney. Does anyone know to whom she is writing? (Jan 20, 1856 is Harriot's birthday.) @AnnDGordon…
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Losing New York, 1915
Dissecting the failed 1915 New York suffrage referendum is like reliving the 2016 election. It’s still too soon. But take a deep breath and let’s dive in . .Winning New York would require a three-step process: suffragists needed to pass a bill…
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…
Harriot Stanton demolishes her mother's argument for "educated suffrage"
It’s easy to disagree with your mother in private. In public, less so. Especially when your mother is Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Harriot Stanton Blatch was the 6th of ElizCadyStanton’s 7 children. She grew up to become an accomplished suffragist and…