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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…

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,…

Should anyone ever lose their right to vote?

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…

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;…

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…