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Serving two GodsRose Schneiderman and Leonora O’Reilly were featured speakers at NAWSA conventions as early as 1907. The leaders of the suffrage mainstream warmed to…
RenunciantsRenounce: 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…
Mary Church TerrellThe end of legal slavery didn’t make a dent in white Americans’ racism. The opposite, really: after the Civil War Northern whites patted themselves on…
Anna Howard Shaw: Reverend, Doctor, NAWSA LeaderWhen Anna Howard Shaw was a young woman, she wore pants and short hair. She gave it up eventually because she got too many comments, but she couldn’t…
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…
NAWSA ❤️ the ConfederacyAnnual conventions belong in the nation’s capital--at least as far as the National Woman Suffrage Assoc was concerned. But the American WSA had always…
At the turn of the centuryDoldrums: a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or depression. Or, the women’s suffrage movement at the turn of the 20th century. Of course, it…
Mergers & Acquisitions, part IIWhy did the American Woman Suffrage Association merge with its longtime rival, the National Woman Suffrage Association? They had distinct strategies…
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…
Mergers & AcquisitionsIn suffrage summaries, the 1890 merger of the National & American Woman Suffrage Assoc. is described in neutral or positive terms. It’s an…