Grandmother Edna defended Mrs. Pankhurst and the English suffragettes who took radical measures in their struggle to win the vote in England. The BBC archive has a four-minute 1958 recording of English suffragette Winifred Mayo describing her experience of throwing stones at a guards’ station and how the incident, which landed her in prison, was…
A SUFFRAGE BOOK THAT’S A—great gift idea!
ONE BOOK THAT’S A GREAT GIFT IDEA—A CLASSIC FROM THE UNITED STATES! Put the suffrage story in every school library. Build on the momentum of the suffrage centennial and make sure women’s history is in every school and public library. The award-winning book, Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement, by…
Single women like Bess got in trouble with her parents for reading too much!
The video below is from the book, “An Unfinished Revolution” by Marguerite Kearns (SUNY Press), 2021. Tara Bloyd is the voice of Bess. Tara is Edna’s great granddaughter. Bess got in trouble with her parents because she read women writers! on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009.
Suffrage Campaign Wagon has deep symbolic roots
NEW VIDEO: We had a terrific time premiering this video at a special event at the Historical Society of Woodstock, NY on Thursday, October 14, 2021. An Unfinished Revolution-Passing the torch of women’s rights activism from Marguerite Kearns on Vimeo. Ode to the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon! on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon News Channel…
Edna Buckman Kearns
