#19thAmendment

Today’s amazing piece of #suffrage history is this Sporting World clip from 1915. 1/8 Both Fred Clarke of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pat Moran from the Philadelphia Nations are wholehearted
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What does this guy have to do with this woman?Hint: dynastic politics.Thread. Charles S. Whitman was elected Governor of New York in 1914. By that time he was a committed
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This month marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment became law. With @USNatArchives and @librarycongress, we're counting down #19SuffrageStories of women who worked for the vote—before and after 1920—through
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In writing about what it means to “look like a mom,” @VVFriedman reported that the yellow t-shirts Portland moms wear are intended to evoke sunshine, joy, warmth. The protesters even
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#ArchivesBakeOff Thread!While researching materials regarding Virginia suffragists for this year's #19thAmendment anniversary, we came across this article in the Virginia Suffrage News about a Suffrage bake sale that took place
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For 100th anniversary of #19thAmendment , this thread will review action in the 36 states needed to secure ratification (3/4 of 48 states) ending with Tennessee August 18, 1920. Enjoy!Source
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Leading off our #suffrage parade is GERTRUDE BARISH! She reportedly left her Russian homeland in order to escape political persecution during WWI. Barish’s fiery personality & determined spirit jumped off
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Our virtual @SimmonsUniv #suffrage march continues w MARY CAROLINE CRAWFORD, a prolific author, labor activist & #suffragist who supported her family from a young age. She understood that education &
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Mary Grew, abolitionist leader & newspaper editor. Her work was respected by all the men in the movement—except her own father.Maryback row w/the Penn. AntiSlavery Society. Margaret Burleigh, her partner
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Today is the centennial of the #19thAmendment ’s ratification — which promised suffrage to American women. Like most people, I learned about this history in school. The story went like
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We gotta talk about lesbians. Specifically, about lesbian erasure.Queer is cool, right? It’s 2020! etc., etc. So why is the lesbian reality of the suffrage movement barely part of the
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Have you heard about the time Frederick Douglass Dr. Mary Edwards WalkerMary Ann Shadd CaryBelva Lockwood occupied the Washington, D.C. Board of Elections? #DCStatehood thread It’s April 14, 1871.DC’s first
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