Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Long Island women’s suffrage activists featured in an exhibit! on Vimeo. Edna Kearns is featured in an exhibit of Long Island suffrage activists that continues at the Suffolk County Historical Society, 300 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY. A petition gathered during 2017, NY’s suffrage centennial, has been sent to officials in Albany, NY supporting…
Continue ReadingThe Votes for Women exhibit at the New York State Museum highlights the “Spirit of 1776” wagon used by Edna Kearns in New York City and Long Island.
Continue ReadingSuffrage politics were hot during 1913. And that’s one story behind the dedication ceremony on April 24, 2018 for a new historic roadside marker program to become part of Huntington, NY’s business district. It was funded by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation throughout New York State. The road marker scheduled for Huntington documents a confrontation between…
Continue ReadingWhite House Picketing & Hot Tea on Vimeo. American women picketed White House 101 years ago in support of voting rights! on Vimeo. News from the women’s suffrage movement. On the home front—this article appeared in the Long Island press in March 1917: Rockville Centre, L.I.—In the mind of the pretty little Miss Serena B. Kearns,…
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