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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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 other side of the splitI’m spending so much time on the 1869 split because it reflects and anticipates so many activist conflicts since: over race and racism, over who gets…
The SplitThe 19th c. suffrage movement split resulted from a painful failure. AERA fought to have “sex” included in the 15th Amendment, which barred states…