Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
There’s a buzz about women’s suffrage. Amazement about Alice Paul. A huge celebration in Washington State. Reviews, commentary. Check it out and appeciate all the time it took to do this wrap up of the Iron Jawed Angels spirit that’s out there. It takes time to link up with what’s being said and this is…
Continue ReadingSuffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt: “Women have suffered an agony of soul that you and your daughters might inherit political freedom. The vote has been costly, prize it!”
Continue ReadingSo what’s the big deal with a suffrage wagon? And what is it anyway? Something kids drag along the sidewalk for play? You’d be surprised how often the question is asked, and you’d think I might have called the blog something else. But a suffrage campaign wagon is what it is. Horse-drawn wagons were used…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press published an article, “Sexism Still a Problem for Women Seeking office” that highlights the attacks on women running for political office that the writer, David Crary, pointed out went beyond the boundaries of ordinary political attacks and what he described were gender specific. It’s worth checking out. Beyond that, these attacks are…
Continue ReadingPlans for a national suffrage memorial at Occoquan Regional Park in Lorton, Va. are underway to bring recognition to the woman’s suffrage movement. Finally! The conceptual design for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial has been unveiled. Fundraising is underway. Design features for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial include: Entrance Plaza Gates duplicating the White House gates where…
Continue ReadingWomen remember the jailing of suffragists. “Iron Jawed Angels” is still being talked about. College student speaks about apathy and the value of voting. Reflections on Alice Paul. Washington State resident shares about her great-grandmother who was a suffragist. One hundred years of voting in Washington State. Scholar and biographer discusses Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Newspaper columnist reviews the history of women voting. British women use 1912 suffrage theatre performance as a…
Continue ReadingThe upcoming November election, the Day of the Dead, and the 90th anniversary of U.S. women voting all converge with a shrine to suffragist Edna Buckman Kearns that will be on display from October 25 through November 14 in Silver City, New Mexico in the Silver City Day of the Dead Shrine Show. The exhibit, spread…
Continue ReadingTo me, she was Aunt Serena. To the many people who knew my grandmother Edna, Serena was the poster child for the suffrage movement in New York City and Long Island. Edna Kearns was the suffrage editor for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle which meant Serena went everywhere with her mother. She rode in the suffrage…
Continue ReadingThe suffrage wagon is a back door opening to the subject of a grand period of our history: the struggle for Votes for Women. Judging by the number of mentions about the suffrage movement, as seen online, the level of interest is increasing. Here are some recent highlights: One Washington county honors its suffragists. College student…
Continue ReadingThe mention of an activist speaking from a suffrage wagon turned up in an unlikely place —The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. “Sara Lauter of Indianapolis, president of the Woman’s Suffrage league, spoke from a ‘suffrage wagon’ in New York City and took turns with others in the group speaking locally ‘whenever we could get two people…
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