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The most significant manI’m chasing down a citation, so you’ll have to wait to hear from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, one of few Black women on the record in these debates.…
The lynchings of Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and William StewartBy 1892, Ida B Wells’ Memphis paper was thriving. She traveled the Mississippi Delta selling subscriptions, tripling circulation. Free Speech was…
Suffrage for white womenBy the 1916 election, it was clear the Nat'l Woman’s Party strategy was working: a federal constitutional amendment had become a live political issue.…
School suffrage in Kentucky endsKentucky was first in the nation to grant women school suffrage: the right to vote in school board elections. More than 50 years later, the…
RenunciantsRenounce: 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…
Reflections on the 1870 split1. I’m immersed in the suffrage movement’s first major rupture, and grappling with how to acknowledge ElizCadyStanton & Susan B Anthony’s racism…
Racist PropagandaWhat's a Rochester suffragist from Susan B Anthony's day doing on a racist anti-suffrage leaflet in Virginia circa 1920? Read on . . . Julie O’Connor…
Phoebe Couzins did not have a lot of friendsMost law schools accepted female students grudgingly, but @WashULaw in St. Louis sought them out. In 1868 the school went looking for white women to…
NAWSA ❤️ the ConfederacyAnnual conventions belong in the nation’s capital--at least as far as the National Woman Suffrage Assoc was concerned. But the American WSA had always…
More money than Mark TwainAfter the war, Dickinson toured nationally, delivering a repertoire of 22 different lectures on women’s suffrage & the rights of all…