Mrs. Zenger
Anna Zenger printed the NY Weekly Journal while her husband JohnPeter was jailed for libel in 1734. He was in for 9 months b/c he couldn't pay bail; his case is a landmark re:freedom to criticize gov't. Anna continued to run the print shop after he died. #EndCashBail #Suffrage100
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Should anyone ever lose their right to vote?
<span>Spending today @ conf on re-enfranchisement, discussing the Jim Crow roots of why most people lose the rt 2 vote when they go to prison. So today take a look at stories from the present, and a novel way to expand the vote: <a href="https://www.thelovevote.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://t.co/WyrdPcL1we</a> #Suffrage100 <a href="https://twitter.com/thelovevotesays" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@thelovevotesays</a> </span>
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11/09/2019
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Women went to jail for the vote, part I
Women went to jail for the vote at three significant periods in American history. In the modern civil rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, Diane Nash and Ella Baker designed strategies for which men got credit. In the last years before the 19th Amdt, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns led hundreds of women to prison, hunger strikes, and force-feeding. And from 1868-1873, at least 700 women voted or attempted to vote in local, state, and federal elections, and many were arrested - including Susan B Anthony. More tomorrow! Oct 04, 2019
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03/10/2019
Teaching Americans to be bolder
When US suffragists began street demonstrations in 1910, the women in the UK had already become more brazen. They were holding huge demonstrations, intentionally provoking arrest, and more. <br /><br />One of their leaders came to the US in 1907 to encourage us to be bolder. Thread. <br /><br />Anne Cobden-Sanderson was first arrested in 1906 along with nine other members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, demonstrating at the House of Commons. <br /><br />They were charged with using “threatening and abusive words and behaviour" and put on trial. <br /><br />They chose two months in Holloway Prison rather than a £10 fine and six months good behavior. <br /><br />The public was shocked that upper-class women would go to prison, but Anne said: “We have talked so much for the Cause now let us suffer for it.” <br /><br />In 1909 Cobden-Sanderson was arrested for picketing 10 Downing Street with a petition to the Prime Minister. There’s a photo! <br /><br />Harriot Stanton Blatch & Sarah Smith Garnet invited Cobden-Sanderson to the US in 1907. <br /><br />Her visit was a coup for both Blatch’s Equality League and Garnet’s Brooklyn Equal Suffrage League. In the packed hall of the Cooper Union, Cobden-Sanderson emphasized how much the British movement owed to its working-class instigators. <br /><br />@<a href="https://twitter.com/EllenDubois10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">EllenDubois10</a> recounts: “After women factory workers were arrested for trying to see the prime minister, Cobden-Sanderson and other privileged women, who felt they ‘had not so much to lose as [the workers] had,’ decided to join them and get arrested.”'<br /><br />She toured the US; her lecture at Bryn Mawr college was called “Why I Went to Prison.” <br /><br />New York suffragists didn’t instantly become more radical, but Cobden-Sanderson and her stories of WSPU’s long prison terms had an impact. #Suffrage100 #CenturyofStruggle
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10/06/2020
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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 promote the cause. <br /><br />American women were fascinated to see the British radical up close. 🧵 <br /><br />On Monday, October 25, 1909, all 3,000 seats of Carnegie Hall were filled, almost all by women. The line stretched around the corner; 1,000 people were turned away. <br /><br />Vassar and Barnard students wearing Votes for Women sashes served as ushers - we’ll meet some of them tomorrow! <br /><br />Harriot Stanton Blatch’s Equality League for Self-Supporting Women sponsored the evening. 400 working, wage-earning women were seated onstage behind Mrs. Pankhurst: teachers, doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers, lawyers, civil service workers & trade unionists. <br /><br />Blatch presided; Anna Howard Shaw from NAWSA & Margaret Dreier Robins from Women’s Trade Union League gave welcoming remarks. <br /><br />However, 4 days later a different group of women met at Carnegie Hall to create a more conservative local suffrage group. There’s a photo of that night. <br /><br />Back to Mrs. Pankhurst...<br /><br />In her memoirs, Harriot Stanton Blatch says the crowd expected someone more fearsome than the elegant Englishwoman. (Meryl Streep played Emmeline Pankhurst in the movie "Suffragette." The movie was eh but the casting seemed right.) <br /><br />“I know you have not all come here tonight because you are interested in suffrage. You have come to see what a militant suffragette looks like & to see what a Hooligan woman is like… <br /><br />I am not going to tell you why we need the vote but how we are going to get it.†<br /><br />She spoke for two hours, explaining that polite demonstrations simply weren’t enough. <br /><br />“It is by going to prison, rather than by any arguments we have employed that we have won the support of the English working man.†<br /><br />As for rock-throwing, it was a British political tradition--and a necessity. <br /><br />“Around every one of these [stones] was wrapped a piece of paper with a question on it. We only threw them because we were not admitted to Liberal meetings and had no chance to ask our questions any other way.†<br /><br />Later in her visit Pankhurst urged the US government to intervene on behalf of Alice Paul. She noted diplomatic interventions on behalf of other Americans jailed abroad, and asked why President Taft was doing nothing for Miss Paul. #Suffrage100 #CenturyofStruggle
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10/07/2020