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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 graders Clara Schneider and Emily Neoh Meanwhile, a few notes about a radical...Gage opposed the merger…
Tags: 1893, Matilda Joslyn Gage, NAWSA
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 promote the cause. American women were fascinated to see the British radical up close. 🧵 On…
Tags: 1909, Barnard, Direct Action, Emmeline Pankhurst, NAWSA, Prison, UK, Vassar, WTUL
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
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
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
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…