Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
COLUMN FROM MARGUERITE KEARNS I started with evaluating my emphasis on my feet. They are neglected in general, says my exercise teacher. And reluctantly I admitted that the category of my mind and that of spirit are given more emphasis than my body. Yikes. This is something I have to correct. That’s why I registered…
Continue ReadingVIDEOs for the holiday season. A special greeting for the season. Plus a session highlighting Sojourner Truth. Get ready for 2019.
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon Cafe is the “go to” place for information about the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon, plus MORE!
Continue ReadingInformation 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.
Continue ReadingDr. Helen Pankhurst is the granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst whose book, Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now was released this year, the suffrage centennial observance of women in Great Britain receiving the partial right to vote. Full suffrage was approved in 1928. There are…
Continue ReadingThe exhibition of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon has been extended for several weeks past the closing of the Votes for Women exhibition on May 13, 2018.
Continue ReadingVIDEOS: The first journey of the “Spirit of 1776” wagon. And the importance of choosing and using the vote that took generations to win. It’s one thing to speak generally about the suffrage movement and yet another thing to find out all of the hard work it involved. This web site celebrates the type of…
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