#Suffrage100

The town of Orange, New Jersey sent Lucy Stone a tax bill in 1857. She replied with a note that began:"Enclosed I return my tax bill, without paying it. My
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What’s the biggest thing you’ve ever changed your mind about?Harriet Taylor Upton was staunchly opposed to women voting - so opposed that she was writing an anti-suffrage article for publication.
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(1/6 Thread) Today I am thinking about @helenhgardener, the woman who endured a public sex scandal at 23, changed her name + moved to NYC, and ended up securing Congressional
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Suffrage colors, a recap! Wasn’t planning to, but I’ve seen some silly myths floating around. So here goes… YELLOW originated w. 1867 suffrage referendum in Kansas. Local suffragists made cloth
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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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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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Obama’s 2d inaugural invoked a throughline “from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall.” Brett Kavanaugh has surely been itching to object since. In dissent yesterday he wrote: “Seneca Falls was
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“When I ran away from slavery, it was for my people; but when I stood up for the rights of women, self was out of the question, and I found
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Charles Lenox Remond was the most prominent Black abolitionist in the US until he was overshadowed by Frederick Douglass.Remond’s commitment to women’s rights was as deep as FD’s, maybe deeper.
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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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