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Why you've never heard of Anna Dickinson
I spent the whole week on Anna Dickinson because she was very, very famous in her day and is almost lost to history. I know a lot about suffrage for a non-academic, and I had never heard her name before the @smithsonianNPG exhibit. In “America’s Joan…
Tags: 15th Amendment, Anna Dickinson, AWSA, NAWSA, Racism
Why Alice & Lucy threatened NAWSA
Alice Paul & Lucy Burns didn’t rebel against the mainstream suffrage organization. It kicked them out. Natl Am. Woman Suffrage Assoc was an organization of white moderates. Religiously conservative, politically mainstream, proudly respectable.…
Tags: Alice Paul, Direct Action, Emmeline Pankhurst, Lucy Burns, NAWSA, suffragettes, UK
Suffrage for white women
By the 1916 election, it was clear the Nat'l Woman’s Party strategy was working: a federal constitutional amendment had become a live political issue. NAWSA couldn’t beat NWP, so they were going to have to join them. But neither group was willing…
Tags: National Woman's Party, NAWSA, Racism
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…
Serving two Gods
Rose Schneiderman and Leonora O’Reilly were featured speakers at NAWSA conventions as early as 1907. The leaders of the suffrage mainstream warmed to working class women when they saw how these fiery activists could ignite a crowd. [New thread!] But…
Tags: 1907, Jews, labor, NAWSA, Rose Schneiderman
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
Renunciants
Renounce: To give up, to resign, to surrender; esp. to give up in a complete and formal manner. Laura Clay ran the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Assoc. from its founding in 1881 until 1912. Kate Gordon, left, ran Louisiana’s suffrage association from…
Tags: anti-suffragists, NAWSA, Racism