#Suffrage

Dr Amara Thornton

amalexathorn

Discussion over the depiction of @trowelblazers Peggy Piggott in #TheDig is making me think what I would want to see if I were to take a real story (& vaguely

☥Roosevelt Terriers☥🌟🌟🌟🐾🌱

RTerriers2

Woman Suffrage Centennial Timeline: The Senate and the 19th AmendmentWomen demanded political equality even before the nation's founding, but not until 1878 did a member of Congress formally submit a

𝕊onja Drimmer

Sonja_Drimmer

According to the artist Hambling, "She's naked & she's every woman." *Every white, 30-something, non-disabled, thin woman.Funny how the brief to commemorate a famous woman generalizes her when Nelson gets

Emerge

EmergeAmerica

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the #19thAmendment , which only guaranteed some women the right to vote. It’s time to set the record straight. Most women of color did

Library of Virginia

LibraryofVA

#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

@RobertEllsberg

RobertEllsberg

100 yrs ago today, Aug 18 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, extending the vote to women. Among those who paved the way was Dorothy Day, 20, later founder of

19thnews

19thnews

A century ago today, on Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, making voting a right regardless of sex.While this was a watershed moment in our democracy, it excluded

Lara Adams-Miller

LaraAdamsMille1

“Shut up, terf” and “punch a terf” rhetoric is nearly indistinguishable from anti-suffrage rhetoric. When people deride “terfs,” they frequently describe or portray them as ugly and middle-aged, because they

Dr Naomi Paxton

NaomiPaxton

Omigosh! So in Feb I had a weird urge to go to the BL, order up the Health and Strength journal from 1911 and see if there was any more

Better Life Lab

BetterLifeLab

1/6 Today is the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the #19thAmendment . While many white women won the right to vote, for decades, many Black women could not vote

Caffeinated Living

WokeLiving

Alright educators, parents, women, this is a failure of education and curriculum. NO ONE should be flocking to SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S gravesight to celebrate the election of this (Black) woman

mike

mpharjo77

So what is the meaning of life? There's a purpose and an answer. It's the journey we all share and traverse. We grow, we wither, we learn, we teach. The

Zia Weise

ZiaWeise

Switzerland was one of the last European countries to introduce women's suffrage — in 1971, meaning this year marks the 50th anniversary. The anti-suffrage posters are quite something:https://twitter.com/mathieuvonrohr/status/1357249

The Washington Post

washingtonpost

The 19th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago today. @MonicaHesse writes: Women’s suffrage was a giant leap for democracy. We haven’t stuck the landing yet.https://wapo.st/32679ES Historians have unearthed new evidence

Simmons Suffragists

SimmonsSuffrage

Today in our virtual campus #suffrage parade: early @simmonsuniversity trustee, the indomitable Boston reformer MARY MORTON KEHEW. Kehew was “a woman of great energy and force of character” who shaped

Vagina Museum

vagina_museum

On this day in 1878, Pamela Colman Smith was born. Although you may not have heard this artist's name, you will have almost definitely seen her work: among many other

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