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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…
Continue ReadingSanta 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…
Continue ReadingThis audio reading is from “Jailed for Freedom” by Doris Stevens, 1920. It is the statement by Maude Younger at the Christmas Day 1916 memorial service for Inez Milholland at Statuary Hall in Washington, DC. (Courtesy: Librivox). After it became apparent that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson wasn’t moved by the extraordinary effort by American women,…
Continue ReadingSanta, 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….
Continue ReadingHave fun over the holidays with Suffrage Wagon News Channel on Vimeo. We’re taking the next week seriously by reaching out and making sure you know that the Inez Milholland presidential citizens’ medal campaign is winding down. For more than a year we have been building support for the presidental medal. Check out the InezMilhollandCentennial web…
Continue ReadingWrite a letter about Inez Milholland, America’s suffrage martyr! on Vimeo. WILL AMERICA’S SUFFRAGE MARTYR BE LOST IN THE SHUFFLE? NOT IF WE TAKE ACTION NOW! by Marguerite Kearns, your host at Suffrage Wagon Cafe: Inez Milholland died 100 years ago on November 25, 1916 for women’s voting rights. Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886-1916) is America’s suffrage…
Continue ReadingHonor Inez Milholland during the centennial of her death! on Vimeo. Welcome to the Suffrage Wagon Cafe. Step up to the plate and give a hand to the campaign to ask President Obama to award Inez Milholland with a presidential medal. This special program at Suffrage Wagon Cafe asks for your help in signing the…
Continue ReadingIt’s the birthday of Inez Milholland, America’s suffrage martyr. If you haven’t ordered your free copy of the new 15-minute film, “Forward Into Light,” do so now by visiting the web site for the production: InezMilholland.org The film poster is $20. But the film itself is free. You heard that right: FREE. If you’re a…
Continue ReadingUpdate from filmmaker Martha Wheelock about the Inez Milholland “Forward into Light” film and its anticipated wide and free distribution. Martha recently returned from Washington, DC when the National Women’s History Project honored U.S. suffrage martyr Inez Milholland as well as fifteen other women who contributed to America’s democracy through public service. The trailer was…
Continue ReadingMy Dear Friends, One of the real pleasures of working with the National Women’s History Project is when we actually get to “write women back into history.” We have a special opportunity this year, and I hope you’ll support and benefit from the Inez Milholland Centennial. This new project of the NWHP will shine the…
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