Suffrage Wagon News Channel

I can’t help but pounce on all the references I can find to the suffrage movement in the media theses days. There are so many I can’t keep up, especially during this election season. Start with the demand for Alice Paul coin that exceeds all expectations. Link A. Link A-1. Fans have been busy sewing…

Have you heard about “Sister Giant”? Take a look at this video, below. It’s a promo for a November conference, November 10 to 11, 2012 in Los Angeles. What makes it especially interesting is the promotional teleconference I logged on to recently which described the upcoming conference. “We are the potential of Seneca Falls,” stated…

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I, by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Free ebook, available online. NEWS FLASH: Original 19th Amendment document on display at Clinton Library for a limited time. Special radio report by Malcolm Glover. Link. EXTRA, EXTRA!!  A new book about Long Island women, published by The History…

“My voter’s card arrived today, and as I perused the tiny paper, wet and wrinkled from the rain, I felt the spirit of Grandma Edna watching over me,” Goldman-Petri wrote in a poem set to music and presented in this video. “They stood on soapboxes, signed petitions, rang doorbells, smiled and dialed. They marched, paraded….

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women’s Suffrage and the First Vote by Dawn C. Adiletta As the 2012 presidential election approaches and all the media coverage about extensive efforts to deny the vote to citizens, the spirit of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is stirring in the wake of her birthday on November 12, 2012. She’ll be 197 years…

The blog of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum in Washington, DC features the story of Grandmother Edna’s suffrage campaign wagon, especially the family stories. Check it out. I’ve written stories about Grandmother Edna’s campaign wagon in the past, but this time I’ve included more in the Sewall-Belmont post, especially the role Grandfather Wilmer Kearns played…

A lot’s going on to win the hearts of suffrage buffs: FEEDBACK: “Suffrage Wagon News Channel is a terrific testimony to women’s achievements over 200 years and a guide light for the future about making sure women’s voices are heard across the globe and that they vote. This online source provides updated news and stories…

Here we go on a great ride through suffrage news notes from all over: Suffrage inspires high-end Paris fashionable clothing styles; designer supports freedom fashions; documentary underway about the life of women’s history pioneer Gerta Lerner; the big picture for women globally; suffrage parade in San Diego; the votes of single women; Quebec women won…

It’s exciting. It’s dramatic. Our suffrage ancestors would be proud. I’m speaking of the buzz around the upcoming elections. With both presidential contenders out to woo the votes of women, there’s more than I can even read online. For starters, it was exciting when First Lady Michelle Obama mentioned suffrage activists being dragged off to…