Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
This 2013 book is a classic—Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia: An Illustrated Historical Study. If there is anything worth having in your collection, this is it. By Kenneth Florey, it is the most up to date collection of what is “out there.” There is more, and when you believe nothing more can be said, Florey and his…
Continue ReadingThere’s considerable documentation about the role that gatherings over afternoon tea were essential for the suffrage activists in terms of providing an opportunity to relax as well as plan “Votes for Women” activism. Alice Paul’s dream of a tea house for activists, reporters and sympathetic public officials came true with the establishment of “The Grated…
Continue ReadingGhandi took note of the British suffragettes and their campaign for the vote, although he bristled when they broke windows. Alice Paul served time in an English jail for her suffrage activism which was difficult to keep out of the American press, especially when she went on a hunger strike and was subjected to forced…
Continue ReadingOctober is New York State Month at the New York State Museum. Find out some of the displays that can be seen NOW about items linked to women’s history at the state museum. And below you can find a gift idea that will make the receiver smile. With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for…
Continue ReadingThere’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…
Continue ReadingWhen 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…
Continue ReadingMy 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…
Continue ReadingWomen’s suffrage history includes Seneca Falls and the national 4th of July celebration.
Continue ReadingThe 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…
Continue Reading“The dungeon I was in was very filthy, tobacco spit on the floor and all along the side of the filthy bunk; dirty horse blankets, open dirty toilet, no water, dark and damp. I was so cold my teeth chattered all night. Superintendent Whittaker ran up and down the corridor screaming to the guards to…
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