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Mrs. Pankhurst at Carnegie Hall

While Alice Paul was in London’s Holloway Prison with a feeding tube forced down her nose, Emmeline Pankhurst traveled to the US to raise funds and…

Mergers & Acquisitions, part II

Why did the American Woman Suffrage Association merge with its longtime rival, the National Woman Suffrage Association? They had distinct strategies…

Mergers & Acquisitions

In suffrage summaries, the 1890 merger of the National & American Woman Suffrage Assoc. is described in neutral or positive terms. It’s an…

Matilda Joslyn Gage was right about everything

On her birthday, celebrate Matilda Joslyn Gage. For video, @SWagner711 points us to this short piece: + sophisticated 10 min. documentary by 8th…

Mary Church Terrell

The 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…

Mary Ann Shadd Cary & the Centennial action

By the 1876 US centennial, women had been demanding the vote for nearly 30 years. The light bulb was not yet invented. As the National and the…

Jessie Ashley, valiant rebel

If you were born rich and you know that’s not fair, what can you do? Jessie Ashley tried to use her advantages to make the world more just. Socialist,…

Jeannette Rankin's Election

Photoshop was invented in 1987 - but this photo of Jeannette Rankin was edited a long time before that. Read on . . . On the morning Rankin was sworn…

Entering WWI

Woodrow Wilson was staunchly opposed to two things: entering the war in Europe, and supporting women’s suffrage. He gave in on the war first. Wilson…

Don't get in bed with racists

At the turn of the century, leading white suffragists deluded themselves into thinking that colluding with racists would help their cause. Spoiler…