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Mrs. Pankhurst at Carnegie HallWhile Alice Paul was in London’s Holloway Prison with a feeding tube forced down her nose, Emmeline Pankhurst traveled to the US to raise funds and…
The MartyrInez Milholland graduated from @Vassar in 1909. She applied to law school, but @Harvard_Law @ColumbiaLaw @UniofOxford @Cambridge_Uni refused her. She…
5th grade reportsKvelling: my son's 5th grade presentation on garment workers, WTUL, #TriangleFire. I gave him @AnneliseOrleck1 & Barbara Wertheimer, but hadn't…
Infighting on the left.I’ve told the story of the WTUL/Wage Earners’ League suffragists at length because it resonates so loudly today. Two camps that should have been…
Funding, and the class politics of activismActivism needs resources. Wealthier women provided funding that working class suffragists needed: to print leaflets & posters, rent meeting halls,…
Factory women“The manufacturer has a vote; the bosses have votes; the foremen have votes, the inspectors have votes. The working girl has no vote.” - Clara…
Working womenWork. Throughout the 19th century, even suffragists saw paid work as something poor women _had_ to do, not something women would _want_ to do. Most of…
Scale of atrocity * caliber of organizingWhy do some tragedies generate change and others don’t? 109 years ago today the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 146 people - mostly Jewish &…
Leonora O'ReillyLeonora O’Reilly had a hand in umpteen important organizations of the Progressive Era. She was a founder of the Consumers League, the Women’s Trade…
Lavinia DockEvery day is a good day to pay tribute to nurses, esp now. Lavinia Dock helped professionalize nursing before devoting the second half of her life to…