Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Another column from our anchor Marguerite Kearns about Edna Kearns’ suffrage campaign wagon, the wagon promoting women’s voting rights in New York City and Long Island during 1913, and Marguerite’s 2024 emphasis on body politics, now and in the future… THE 2025 EXHIBITION OF THE “SPIRIT OF 1776” SUFFRAGE WAGON ON LONG ISLAND. . . …
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns When I was young, I couldn’t figure out why women and their history weren’t considered a part of American history. I didn’t fully understand then that women were second-class citizens, there to serve men rather than thinking for themselves. Although this perspective has suffered to a degree during my lifetime, the top-down…
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon Cafe is the “go to” place for information about the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon, plus MORE!
Continue ReadingVideos from Suffrage Wagon News Channel are a reminder of the long and hard struggle to win this basic right.
Continue ReadingMary Wollstonecraft wrote in the 1700s in England about women’s rights. Her work influenced girls and women for generations. This personal story tells why.
Continue ReadingThe memoir in progress by Marguerite Kearns highlights her growing up as the descendant of Votes for Women activists.
Continue ReadingInez Milholland is the US suffrage martyr. Our sister site highlights what you should know about her sacrifice so we could vote today. Find out more.
Continue ReadingAnother program from Suffrage Wagon Café. Prepare for 2020 when we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of US women voting.
Continue ReadingThere are thousands of descendants of the first wave of women’s rights activists in the United States. Watch a video.
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