#Suffragists

☥Roosevelt Terriers☥🌟🌟🌟🐾🌱

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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

Corrine McConnaughy

cmMcConnaughy

On the centennial the #19thAmendment ’s ratification I make this observation: Michelle Obama performs politics in exactly the way many politically powerful women have, including notable suffragists—by using our gendered

Witchcrit

Dis_Critic

Marion Wallace Dunlop was born in Inverness in December 1864. She was a writer and artist and Scottish Suffragist. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. She illustrated

Simmons Suffragists

SimmonsSuffrage

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

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

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.

Tory Brown

torylynn

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

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

Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC

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Today is the 99th anniversary of something remarkable happening: on 28 December 1918 the first woman MP was elected to the House of Commons. She was an Irishwoman, a nationalist,

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

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

India Wants To Know - Panel Quiz Show

IWTKQuiz

This #RepublicDay let us remember our Founding Parents. We still call them founding fathers, the men who built the republic, when very clearly it was not! A thread on

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

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

✨charlie // amáyá✨

GrandmaSaidNo

Today is the centennial of the #19thAmendment in which “womxn” were allowed to vote. Let’s not forget that the majority of Black Women weren’t allowed that right until 1965

UnitedStateofWomen

USOWomen

Voting restrictions for women of color did not end 100 years ago. These are some of the Black, Indigenous, Latina, & Asian women who fought for the right to vote

The New York Times

nytimes

The 19th Amendment, which established American women's right to vote, was ratified 100 years ago today. But its promise was incomplete. Many, including some who had fought fiercely for suffrage,

Monica L. Mercado

monicalmercado

The limited vision of the Stanton/Anthony Statue Fund is lightly referenced in today's NYTimes. If you're teaching #wmnhist this Fall, you might want to tweak the essential @Monument_Lab question &

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Cajsa

This belief is so common among self-styled "progressives" it deserves a rebuttal. Let's consider Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2014/september.htm He looked at the

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