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Don't get in bed with racistsAt the turn of the century, leading white suffragists deluded themselves into thinking that colluding with racists would help their cause. Spoiler…
Higher ed.Second & third generation suffragists had much more access to formal education than the women who came before them. Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church…
Julia Ward HoweSo many great suffragists were born for the struggle. They were iconoclasts, rebels from the beginning. Many remained unmarried, or married unusual…
Lucy StoneLucy Stone tried hard to bridge the gap between pro- and anti-15th Amdt camps. She argued for a middle path that would support Black men’s…
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…
More Lucy StoneAt Lucy Stone's graduation from Oberlin in 1847, she declined the "honor" of writing the oration for a man to read. Wm Lloyd Garrison met her that…
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…
Taxation in New JerseyThe town of Orange, New Jersey sent Lucy Stone a tax bill in 1857. She returned it with a note that began: "Enclosed I return my tax bill, without…
The only obligation women could refuseMore tax protests! 15 years after Lucy Stone’s tax protest, even more women refused to be taxed until they were represented. Dec 16, 1873 - 100 years…
The other side of the splitI’m spending so much time on the 1869 split because it reflects and anticipates so many activist conflicts since: over race and racism, over who gets…