Background information about Edna Beckman Kearns…
Information about suffrage activist Edna Beckman Kearns is a click away. The research has already been done for you. Kearns reported on votes for women news in New York City and on Long Island after 1912.
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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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Suffrage Wagon Cooking School—recipes & demonstrations on Constitution Day!
A video plus links to recipes and demonstrations at Suffrage Wagon Cooking School. Hot tea, hot coffee, and Chinese fortune cookies are featured in this posting. Find out more.
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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.
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Controversy over 2020 brings attention to “First Wave” or “suffrage movement,” plus “suff buff” update!
The first wave of the women’s rights movement in the US has been hidden for decades. Now it comes out into the open as 2020 approaches—the 100th anniversary of women voting in the US.
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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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National Voter Registration Day in September! Plus update on tea action campaign!
Tea houses are important for organizing during the first wave of the women’s rights movement. The concern continues today about the working conditions of tea employees, many of whom are women.
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