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Centennial Twitter Collection
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2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment
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Rachel B. Tiven
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Twitter.com
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August 2019 to August 2020
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English
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Building mass appeal almost always means making your ideas less threatening. Once persuaded, new adherents may want the cause to reflect their own more conservative interests. For the vanguard, this instrumental tradeoff rarely feels good. <br /><br />To take one recent example... <br /><br />A domesticated, strictly monogamous, painfully chaste version of LGBT life made marriage equality palatable to the masses. <br /><br />Was it worth it? Absolutely. Is it limiting? Sure is. <br /><br />In the 1880s, Frances Willard recast suffrage as “home protection,” a brilliant stroke. <br /><br />0Willard's approach attracted a wider base of support than the radical idea that women were independent individuals. <br /><br />But the influence of so many conservative women pushed the suffrage movement in a more conservative direction. Over the months ahead we’ll see how that played out. <br /><br />Before moving on, @<a href="https://twitter.com/EllenDubois10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">EllenDubois10</a> new history of the movement captures perfectly why I resist spending much time on Frances Willard. <br /><br />“It takes a real leap of historical imagination to appreciate what Frances Willard accomplished in the WCTU. So much of her approach—her religious framework, her appeal to sentimentalism and moralism, even her flowery language—is foreign to us today. <br /><br />Unlike Eliz. Cady Stanton, who believed relentlessly in individual privacy as well as rights, Willard was an advocate of social control and government policing of behavior and morality. She believed in legal prohibition, if necessary by constitutional action. <br /><br />"That said, Frances Willard placed herself squarely in the center of the women’s rights tradition, and did so in a way that spoke to women far less radical in their inclinations than the pioneers of the suffrage movement. As Willard’s leadership grew stronger and more confident, her essential belief in the equality of the sexes became ever clearer." <br /><br />Willard died in 1898, only 59. We don’t know how her views might have evolved further. #Suffrage100
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Daily Suffragist
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1244655349199712256" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread.</a>
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Women's Christian Temperance Union/Frances Willard
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30/3/2020
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Centennial Twitter Collection
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2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment
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Rachel B. Tiven
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Twitter.com
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August 2019 to August 2020
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English
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Daily Suffragist
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1242295620037156864" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread.</a>
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The belief that “women†would vote as a block about alcohol animated support and opposition re: suffrage. (It wasn’t ever really true.) The liquor industry lobbied against women’s votes at many junctures, though historians debate how much influence they had. 🧵 <br /><br />The Women’s Christian Temperance Union had massive influence among women, especially very conservative women who were skeptical about suffrage. Frances Willard, leader of WCTU, was one of the most powerful women in the country.<br /><br />She persuaded her 200,000 members (equiv. to 1.2 million today) that they needed the vote to influence domestic issues. She called it a “Home Protection†ballot. WCTU was a very white, very Christian organization. They did organize Black women, often in segregated chapters.<br /><br />Leading activists like Frances Watkins Harper & Sarah Woodson Early played national roles, and urged WCTU’s white women to recognize their privilege. Ida B Wells wasn’t a change-from-the-inside kind of activist. She was frustrated at WCTU’s silence about lynching. <br /><br />WCTU had huge clout among white Southern women, and had they spoken out, it would have been powerful. But they didn’t. <br /><br />Ida, never hesitating to criticize the powerful when they were being cowardly, publicized racist statements by Frances Willard. Willard responded by patronizing Ida [“If Miss Wells is not careful she will kill her cause…â€], and insisting on her own abolitionist bona fides. As you can imagine, the feud went on a long time. <br /><br />The @<a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesWillard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">FrancesWillard</a> House Museum in Evanston, Ill. & the WCTU Archives @<a href="https://twitter.com/ArchivesWillard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ArchivesWillard</a> collaborated on a really spectacular exhibit & website on the conflict, <a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/works/willard-and-wells/index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Truth-Telling: Frances Willard & Ida B. Wells.</a><br />It’s got a detailed timeline, short pieces on the era and context, thoughtful personal essays inc. by @MLDWrites, and it’s handsome and easy to navigate. Most importantly, it delivers on its promise. <br /><br />It’s a model of how to tell the truth about racism and conflict in movements. In refusing to lie for their namesake, @FrancesWillard & @ArchivesWillard make her story more relevant. #Suffrage100 <br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">were there any brazen female wine-drinkers who thought respectable women should be able to drink in public (and vote)?</p>
— Dr. Mary Dockray-Miller (@MDockrayMiller) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDockrayMiller/status/1242423075783802881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
<br /><br />@MDockrayMiller Ooh, good question! Apparently one of the reasons Ida B didn't embrace temperance as a cause is that she enjoyed a social drink - and Ida wd never do anything hypocritical. But I bet @<a href="https://twitter.com/LOsborne615" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LOsborne615</a> would know more.
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Ida vs. Frances Willard
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23/03/2020
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Centennial Twitter Collection
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2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment
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Rachel B. Tiven
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Twitter.com
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August 2019 to August 2020
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English
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Daily Suffragist
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1233232168652070912" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread.</a>
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I 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 and Black and wasn’t afraid to disagree with them, especially in defense of unpopular or uncomfortable ideas. Thread. <br /><br />Ida B. Wells was often the source of those unpopular ideas. Josephine was already a prominent publisher when she heard Ida speak in front of 400 New Yorkers. The 1892 speech launched Ida’s anti-lynching campaign and galvanized Af-Am women to become more explicitly political. A Memphis newspaper, furious that Ida was exposing lynchings, called her a “wench” and a “black harlot.” Nasty still, in 1892 those words were calculated to exploit stereotypes Black women faced constantly, and to undermine Ida’s credibility within the Black community. <br /><br />Josephine wasn’t having it. She defended Ida unconditionally, and made clear that the Woman’s Era Club of Boston believed in Ida Wells’ “purity of purpose and character.” She defended her again when Ida picked a fight with a very powerful woman. Ida pointed out that the Women’s Christian Temperance Union wasn’t doing much to fight lynching. (They weren’t - they believed the lie that lynchings punished Black men for raping white women.) In criticizing WCTU, she took on Frances Willard, its powerful leader. Wealthy British supporters of American reform were devoted to Willard, and insisted Ida was lying. Even Frederick Douglass defended the powerful Willard, but Josephine sided with Ida. <br /><br />“Doubtless Miss Willard is a good friend to colored people,” said Josephine’s paper, “...but we have failed to hear from her and the WCTU any flat-footed denunciation of lynching and lynchers.” <a href="http://womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/advocacy/content.php?level=div&id=era2_04.15.02&document=era2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read the whole editorial here:</a><br /><br />Josephine stood by Ida in internal battles among the clubwomen through the years, and against Booker T. Washington. I don’t think they were close friends. I like to imagine she was loyal because Ida stood for the brutal truth, and Josephine respected that. #BlackSuffragists
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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, part II
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27/02/2020
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Centennial Twitter Collection
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2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment
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Rachel B. Tiven
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Twitter.com
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August 2019 to August 2020
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English
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Daily Suffragist
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1215748761995108353" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread.</a>
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Remember Elizabeth Meriwether, the suffragist who helped start the Memphis chapter of the Ku Klux Klan? She shared her home with her brother- & sister-in-law, Lide Smith Meriwether. Lide was as devoted a suffragist as Elizabeth, and more progressive. <br /><br />Lide devoted much of the 1870s to supporting local sex workers (forgive the anachronism) and their children. Her view of “fallen women” was progressive for its time: she believed prostitution was a result of economic need, not inherently low morals. <br /><br />By 1886 Eliz. & her husband had moved to St. Louis. Maybe Lide felt freer to do cross-racial work without them around, because she expanded her activism to the Knights of Labor. KofL was challenging the rapaciousness of RR barons like Jay Gould. It was integrated and co-ed. <br /><br />KofL held “large, festive, interracial gatherings throughout the South replete with parades that included black women who rode in carriages…” (Paula Giddings) Ida B Wells attended a meeting in Memphis where she was treated “with the courtesy usually extended to white ladies.”<br /><br />One of the speakers that day was Lide Meriwether. Lide was state president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Under her leadership WCTU organized its 1st Black chapters in the South. A meeting she chaired in 1886 was probably the 1st interracial women's mtng in Memphis. WCTU had a fraught relationship with suffrage, but it was the place to organize respectable women in conservative Memphis. <br /><br />It took Lide 3 years, but she managed to add a suffrage plank to WCTU’s platform. In 1889 she formed the first suffrage club in Memphis, with 50 members. Lide was truly the face of the white women’s suffrage movement in Tennessee for the rest of the century. She toured the state in the 1890s as a paid organizer for NAWSA, and presided over state suffrage conventions, where she was elected “honorary president for life.” <br /><br />Lide is honored on the <a href="https://www.thenorthstar.com/a-new-monument-in-tennessee-highlights-black-women-in-the-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tennessee Women’s Suffrage Trail</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/TNSuffrageTrail" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TNSuffrageTrail</a>. @<a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleDuster" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MichelleDuster</a> wrote about the expansion of the trail, which now honors Lide alongside Ida B Wells & Mary Church Terrell (and Elizabeth Meriwether):<br /><br />Lastly, b/c I can’t make this stuff up: Lide’s daughter Virginia eloped in 1882 (her sister eloped the same night!) Virginia immediately realized she’d made a mistake & returned. Her new husband pursued her, armed. She got hold of his gun, he brandished another, and she shot him. <br /><br />As he lay dying, he acknowledged she had fired in self-defense. In Memphis, Virginia Meriwether was talk of the town. She moved to New York and enrolled in the Blackwell sisters’ medical school. At her death in 1949 she was the oldest practicing woman doctor in New York.
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The other Meriwether sister
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10/01/2020
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Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
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