The New Mexico suffrage history angle. . .from Suffrage Wagon News Channel

There’s a lot of interest in the suffrage wagon coming from New Mexico. People are fascinated with this part of American history, no matter where they live. While New Mexico wasn’t high profile in the suffrage movement, the state’s women played an important part in the overall movement. Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren played a key role…

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Who in 1913 linked tea parties with politics? Suffrage activist Alice Paul!

When my grandfather fell in love with Edna, he was shocked that she found anything interesting about  him. This is one of the many stories about Edna and Wilmer Kearns before they made activism a family affair. When the world agonized about international tensions, Alice Paul and her organization held tea parties at their Washington…

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My Aunt Serena Kearns’s fairy tale of suffrage or “women voting”

My Aunt Serena was known as Nassau County’s “youngest suffragist.” If there was a poster child for woman’s suffrage, it was little Serena Kearns. Her image was preserved when sitting in her mother Edna’s suffrage campaign wagon with the large bow in her hair. She accompanied her mother in New York City parades and on…

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Votes for Women a complex and ever-present movement…

The women’s suffrage movement was diverse. It included compromises. No one ever claimed it was perfect. It was NOT unilateral. Viewing the movement to win recognition in the larger mainstream culture is the goal of a podcast series underway by the NYC Department of Records & Information Services. I’m in support because I grew up…

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Why I wrote “An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns & the Struggle for Women’s Rights,” Plus ERA update!

by Marguerite Kearns I wrote the book, “An Unfinished Revolution” because if I didn’t, no one would have. I chose what I believed would be an “easy” book for starters. I found out quickly that women’s rights as a topic, even its history, isn’t easy. Even the fact that I waited to begin the documentation…

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Book about the suffrage hike to Washington DC in 1913 makes us suffrage storytellers smile!

BLOG POST ABOUT SUFF ACTIVIST ELISABETH FREEMAN Peg Johnston, suffrage activist Elisabeth Freeman’s great niece, contacted me recently. Here’s her post ro say that s she gathered the energy to write about Elisabeth that was inspired by a book that has made its way to us suffrage nuts. See  below. Edna Kearns and Elisabeth Freeman…

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