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Women's Typographical Union 1
Women got the chance to learn typesetting when owners needed scabs. Augusta Lewis realized we'd do better unionized, and in 1868 she created Women's Typographical Union 1. It met @ the office of Susan B Anthony's newspaper Revolution. #Suffrage100…
Tags: 1868, labor, Newspapers, Susan B Anthony
The third musketeer
Matilda Joslyn Gage is the 3rd musketeer, the one you've never heard of. As radical as Stanton & Anthony, w/whom she founded organizations & edited History of Woman Suffrage. She critiqued religion, demanded separation of church & state,…
Tags: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Newspapers
The Hikers
16 women really did walk to Washington to participate in the original Women’s March, on the occasion of Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 inauguration. “General†Rosalie Jones led the contingent, which left New York City in February. She’s at far left…
Tags: 1913, New York, Newspapers, Parades
The Freeman
Mary Ann Shadd Cary edited The Freeman in Canada. She moved there in 1850s to protest Fugitive Slave Act. Post-Civil War she returned & entered Howard Law School at age 46, the only woman in her class. More ahead on her work w/Frederick Douglass,…
The Crisis - Suffrage Special Issue 1915
With the New York referendum looming, The Crisis published its second special issue on women’s suffrage in August 1915. The cover was an arresting composite of Abraham Lincoln & Sojourner Truth. 🧵 26 essays by men and women took up almost…
Pulitzer Prizes
Researching and writing and publishing the truth, especially when it makes powerful people uncomfortable, is a gift to the nation. So thrilling to see two truth-tellers recognized today.
Congrats @nhannahjones for your @PulitzerPrizes in the SAME…
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No Night Work for Women
FFwd to 1913: Post-Triangle Shirtwaist fire, safety laws finally pass. 1 bans women from night shifts➡️female printers, proofers @nytimes & other a.m. papers are axed. The NY Typographical Union won't help get their jobs back, so 3 women organize…
Tags: 1913, labor, Newspapers
Newspapers
Provincial Freeman [Mary Ann Shadd Cary] Revolution [Anthony & Stanton] National Citizen & Ballot Box [Matilda Joslyn Gage] Free Speech [IdaBWells] Woman’s Journal [Lucy Stone/Julia Ward Howe] Woman’s Era [Josephine & Florida Ruffin]…
Tags: Newspapers
New York Times on suffrage
The position of the Times on the question of woman suffrage has long been known. It is totally opposed to the extension of suffrage on the grounds that it would not benefit the women in any single way and would tend to disorganize society. --…
Tags: 1915, anti-suffragists, Newspapers
Ms.
It’s jarring to be reading about the revolutionary activities of Susan B. Anthony or Ida B. Wells and come upon them referred to as Miss Anthony, Miss Wells. It feels demeaning, and anachronistic - though of course it was unexceptional at the time.…
Tags: Newspapers