VIDEO: “A brief history of women’s rights” PLUS suffrage news!
Turning points in women’s movement organizing. Plus news from Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Sign up for weekly posts and get ready for 2020.
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Voter Registration Day, plus Quaker women’s rights activist, Mariana Wright Chapman
Mariana Wright Chapman was a New York Quaker involved in the first wave of the women’s rights movement. This is another blast from the past brought to you by Suffrage Wagon News Channel.
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Exhibit extended of Long Island activists for votes for women!
Long Island women’s suffrage activists featured in an exhibit! on Vimeo. Long Island (NY)’s Suffolk County Historical Society (300 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY) has moved the exhibit of Long Island votes for women activists to a more permanent exhibit location at the Society’s headquarters in Riverhead, NY. Edna Kearns is among the suffragists included in…
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Volunteer to help with a suffrage database! Video: “
Women’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….
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Grassroots suffrage activists in England—Elizabeth Crawford introduces the Hodgson family, PLUS first wave news……
Elizabeth Crawford, who posts on “Woman and her Sphere,” presents the Hodgson sisters and their suffrage souvenirs. Her new catalog (No. 198) includes the memorabilia collected by the Hodgson family of the suffrage movement in England. Notes Crawford in her July 30, 2018 post: “As with the Stevenson Sisters, about whom I wrote about last…
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News from the first wave of women’s rights descendants!
The Huntington, NY suffrage historic road marker is located near Wall and Main Streets!
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Suffrage Wagon Cafe—Videos, news, & your “to do” list to get ready for 2020!
Suffrage Wagon Cafe features videos, storytelling, and special programs.
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Sculptor chosen for Central Park statue. Plus music video about “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon!
The sculptor has been chosen for the Central Park statue of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton!
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