Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Susan B. Anthony: The first militant suffragist from Vimeo. Votes for women: a focus at Suffrage Wagon Cafe on Vimeo. TWO EXAMPLES OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY BIRTHDAY PARTIES: Or plan your own party during February to carry on the spirit of the 2017 Womens March. #1: Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday Party on Saturday, February 18, 2017, 1-3 p.m., at the Lord Mansion Coach…
Continue ReadingIf you haven’t seen the “Spirit of 1776” wagon on exhibit, here’s your chance! on Vimeo. SIX-PANEL TRAVELING EXHIBITION AVAILABLE FOR TRAVEL IN NYS Votes for Women Traveling Panel Exhibition The New York State Museum plans to create a six-panel traveling exhibition based on the larger Votes for Women exhibition that can travel to smaller venues…
Continue ReadingChinese fortune cookies for the Chinese New Year on Vimeo. Make Chinese Fortune Cookies at Suffrage Wagon Cooking School on Vimeo. January is Hot Tea Month. There’s nothing better than a hot cup of tea and a homemade fortune cookie to reflect on the impact of the mass women’s demonstrations across the nation and around the world….
Continue ReadingIt’s one thing to read about the split between Alice Paul and the main suffrage organization at the time, NAWSA. It’s quite another to realize that my grandmother Edna Kearns witnessed it. An article in the New York Tribune in November following the big 1913 suffrage parade in the nation’s Capitol laid out how the New…
Continue ReadingWe’re off to the 2017 women’s march in body & spirit! on Vimeo. The 2017 women’s march in Washington, DC, across the United States and around the world is not only historic, but we couldn’t have imagined it like this. Back in 2009 when we stated blogging, people’s eyes glazed over when we mentioned the suffrage…
Continue ReadingThe “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon is in our future! on Vimeo. On this last day of the Obama administration in Washington, DC, I am coming up for air after a well-deserved and health related break and rest. You can’t keep a suffrage history nut under control, however. The nation is buzzing with news of…
Continue ReadingWomen’s Marches & Parades: “The Song of the Women” on Vimeo. Birthday cakes are in your future when you follow the Spirit of 1776! on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon News Channel supports the 2017 women’s march in Washington, DC on January 21, 2017. The video “Women’s Marches & Parades” hints of the long American tradition of women’s marches….
Continue ReadingSupport Inez Milholland for a presidential citizens medal! on Vimeo. Finally—the Inez Milholland citizens medal is being considered by the White House. Today, the following message was sent to the over 1,000 individuals and organizations who signed the Change.org petition in support of U.S. President Obama awarding Inez Milholland (1886-1916) with a presidential citizens medal before…
Continue ReadingMake a cup of hot tea: From Suffrage Wagon Cooking School on Vimeo. January is Hot Tea Month at Suffrage Wagon News Channel! on Vimeo. At Suffrage Wagon Cafe we’re promoting our partner, Suffrage Wagon Cooking School, where we are out to set a mood, that of bringing us all together with a reminder of how to…
Continue ReadingIf New Zealand can issue a suffrage centennial medal, can the United States manage a similar act of recognition? Inez Milholland (1886-1916) died in the course of working for women’s rights. The year 2016 marked the centennial of her death in California. In 2015, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier nominated Milholland for a presidential citizens medal….
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