VIDEO: Suffrage Book Shelf: Books about votes for women & the first wave of women’s rights!
VIDEO about votes for women’s resources and books. Plus a special holiday message from Marguerite Kearns. Get ready for 2020 centennial.
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Christmas Day in Washington, DC 100 yrs ago honored suffragist Inez Milholland: A program at Suffrage Wagon Cafe!
Happy birthday suffrage activist Edna Kearns (1882-1934) on December 25th. Find out about Edna and her “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon at Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Edna’s “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon will be on exhibit in New York State during its 2017 suffrage centennial observance. On this day before December 25th in 2016, we remember…
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Happy Holidays & News from Marguerite Kearns, Suffrage Wagon Cafe host!
Follow the Suffrage Wagon through snow and sleet and rain. . . on Vimeo. VOTES FOR WOMEN NEWS: The legacy of the women’s suffrage movement is being unearthed in Rhode Island where student researchers have been contributed to a national database of votes for women activists, the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement…
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Christmas program features Obama & the Inez Milholland citizens medal at Suffrage Wagon Cafe!
Santa and the Inez Milholland citizens medal! on Vimeo. CHRISTMAS DAY MEMORIAL SERVICE 100 YEARS AGO LINKED TO OBAMA’S LAST DAYS Vassar graduate & NYC attorney Inez Milholland (1886-1916) nominated for citizens medal from President Obama Christmas Day is typically set aside for families. However, on Christmas Day in 1916, 100 years ago, over one thousand…
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Will Santa save the day for Inez Milholland? Suffrage Wagon Cafe special program!
Santa, will you save the day for a citizens medal for Inez Milholland? from Marguerite Kearns on Vimeo. WATCH THE HOLIDAY VIDEO BELOW: Suffrage Wagon News Channel: a partner in the InezMilhollandCentennial.com campaign! WATCH THE VIDEO ABOUT THE INEZ MILHOLLAND PRESIDENTIAL CITIZENS MEDAL CAMPAIGN! Support presidential citizens medal for Inez Milholland! Sign petition NOW! on Vimeo….
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Happy holiday video for 2016 from Suffrage Wagon!
Happy holidays from those of us at Suffrage Wagon News Channel! on Vimeo. The Inez Milholland petition campaign is winding down. If you haven’t added your name, please do so! Will a presidential citizens’ medal be lost in the transition of one administration to another? Perhaps. We’re concerned. And the way of addressing this? Do the…
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“A Black and White Christmas in 1823,” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2015 is the 200th birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Here’s what she had to say about Christmas in 1823. Two large and diverse events in New York City and Seneca Falls, NY in November 2015 brought many people together to remember that the women’s rights movement in the United States was long and uphill. This…
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Susan B. Anthony’s holiday sleigh ride, plus December 2013 suffrage movement news notes
The Winter 2013-14 Suffrage Wagon newsletter should be in your email box. If not, here it is. Terrific article about Susan B. Anthony’s organizing sleigh ride throughout New York State at Christmas in 1854. If you read no other article about Susan B. Anthony, this is the one. It shows how Susan took advantage of an…
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“Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas” letter, plus December 25th stories and birthdays!
Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas. . . We’ll see if Santa, Mrs. Claus and all the elves can pull off what appears to be a minor miracle in terms of putting a federal and state women’s trails in Santa’s sleigh on Christmas eve. There’s a video called “All I want for Christmas is…
Continue ReadingPerplexed about a holiday gift for someone special?
I’m hearing a lot about downsizing consumption this holiday season. This suggests a suffrage-themed gift could be in order. Yvonne Crumlish, whose grandmother Addie’s Votes for Women pennant was featured on “History Detectives” in September, tells me that she saw the HBO special “Iron Jawed Angels” for the first time this year. This could mean…
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