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Women's Christian Temperance Union/Frances WillardBuilding mass appeal almost always means making your ideas less threatening. Once persuaded, new adherents may want the cause to reflect their own…
Ida vs. Frances WillardThe belief that “women” would vote as a block about alcohol animated support and opposition re: suffrage. (It wasn’t ever really true.) The liquor…
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, part III am particularly fond of Josephine St Pierre Ruffin because she was an avid defender of Ida B Wells. Josephine moved among society women both white…
The other Meriwether sisterRemember Elizabeth Meriwether, the suffragist who helped start the Memphis chapter of the Ku Klux Klan? She shared her home with her brother- &…