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To ring in the Jewish new year, I’m highlighting 2 women whose impact on labor rights for all working people -esp. women- endures. Both fierce union organizers, suffragists, lesbians. Read @AnneliseOrleck1's profiles: Rose Schneiderman first. Shana…

-1- Daily Suffragist on Twitter- -Labor -amp- suffrage leader Rose Schneiderman was 8 yrs old when she came to the US- Pauline Newman was 11- Luisa Moreno came from Guatemala as a child- They changed the country- women -amp- all workers are.png
Labor & suffrage leader Rose Schneiderman was 8 yrs old when she came to the US. Pauline Newman was 11. Luisa Moreno came from Guatemala as a child. They changed the country: women & all workers are safer because of them. Which I guess is…

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Why do some tragedies generate change and others don’t? 109 years ago today the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 146 people - mostly Jewish & Italian immigrant women. The fire was key to winning labor & safety laws. The political power women…

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Rose Schneiderman and Leonora O’Reilly were featured speakers at NAWSA conventions as early as 1907. The leaders of the suffrage mainstream warmed to working class women when they saw how these fiery activists could ignite a crowd. [New thread!] But…

-10- Daily Suffragist on Twitter- -In Dec 1909- Socialist suffragists convened a party conference to debate whether they should work with the mainstream suffrage groups- Rose Schneiderman -amp- Leonora O’Reilly thought the movement was to.png
In Dec 1909, Socialist suffragists convened a party conference to debate whether they should work with the mainstream suffrage groups. Rose Schneiderman & Leonora O’Reilly thought the movement was too small for purity tests, and women should be…

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Activism needs resources. Wealthier women provided funding that working class suffragists needed: to print leaflets & posters, rent meeting halls, and most of all to pay salaries so activists could quit their factory jobs & organize…

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New York’s most compelling suffrage spokeswomen toured the state in the spring of 1908. They began in Seneca Falls and traveled from town to town by trolley. Through World War I, electric railways connected the cities and towns of central NY - and…

Daily Suffragist on Twitter- -Have you seen the PBS series Unladylike- It features suffragists like Mary Church Terrell- Rose Schneiderman- and Tye Leung Schulze alongside other notables -Gladys Bentley-- 1- Each 1.png
Have you seen the PBS series Unladylike? It features suffragists like Mary Church Terrell, Rose Schneiderman, and Tye Leung Schulze alongside other notables (Gladys Bentley!) 1. Each 12-minute episode features a contemporary activist who mirrors the…
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