Suffrage Wagon Cafe—First woman reporter on the moon!
Suffrage Wagon Cafe features three videos, with our favorite “The First Woman Reporter on the Moon.” She is from Suffrage Wagon News Channel, of course. Publishing since 2009.
Continue ReadingFeatures suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Suffrage Wagon Cafe features three videos, with our favorite “The First Woman Reporter on the Moon.” She is from Suffrage Wagon News Channel, of course. Publishing since 2009.
Continue ReadingPlay this rap August 26th reminder that it’s Women’s Equality Day at Suffrage Wagon Cafe, a commemoration of the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that took from 1848 to 1920. August 26th isn’t a national holiday. It’s a day like any other, except that the US president issues a…
Continue ReadingWomen’s Marches & Parades: “The Song of the Women” on Vimeo. This video has been a favorite of the hundreds of short informational and promotional videos produced by Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Antonia Petrash has been using this video, “The Song of the Women,” to accompany her Long Island suffragist presentations for the past few years….
Continue ReadingHow Bess got in trouble for reading Mary Wollstonecraft! on Vimeo. Bess was Edna’s best friend when they lived in Germantown, a part of Philadelphia. And she plays an important part in the story about Edna and Wilmer Kearns, my grandparents. Mary Wollstonecraft’s book about women in the 1700s was a cutting edge work that influenced…
Continue ReadingBooks geared to suffrage movement for young readers, from Suffrage Wagon Book Shelf.
Continue ReadingEdna Buckman Kearns will be honored among the tens of thousands of women who were part of the first wave of the women’s rights movement in the U.S. on August 26th, Women’s Equality Day.
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon Cafe features videos, storytelling, and special programs.
Continue ReadingThe amount of new information, events, conferences, and special programs has increased dramatically over the years when Suffrage Wagon has been publishing.
Continue ReadingAugust 26th is the women’s 4th of July. And activists observed the national holiday as well. Edna Kearns, for example, and her activist associates traveled during the first week of July in 1913 to take the freedom message to the people of New York City and Long Island. The Declaration of Sentiments was released in…
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