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Month: April 2011

Suffragists Invented Modern Tactics?

Marguerite Kearns April 29, 2011 0 Comments

Mary Walton’s recent book, A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot, has been introducing many people to the woman’s suffrage movement. In the mid-1990s, Walton had never heard of Alice Paul when her editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer suggested that she write a book on Paul and her contribution to American…

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Sun and Heat Couldn’t Keep Them from Their Task

Marguerite Kearns April 21, 2011 4 Comments

I deliver 60-second history lessons wherever I can. One such tale is about how spreading the word about Votes for Women on Long Island in 1912 was no small accomplishment. This account from my grandmother’s files shows the details and about how the weather didn’t deter the women from the task at hand.

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The Whirlwind Campaign of Long Island: 1912

Marguerite Kearns April 16, 2011 2 Comments

The women hit the streets, literally, when barnstorming Long island for Votes for Women in 1912. They also kept excellent records, took charge of their own publicity, and understood the importance of being visible.

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Suffragette film in the works

Marguerite Kearns April 10, 2011 1 Comment

A film about the English suffrage movement called “Suffragettes” is in development. No votes for women in Saudi municipal elections. One hundredth anniversary of English boycott of census by suffragettes, an event that was inspired by Ghandi. There’s more suffrage news on the internet than ever before. The 100th anniversary of suffrage in the United…

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My Grandmother Stepped Up to Volunteer!

Marguerite Kearns April 7, 2011 4 Comments

This appeal from the New York Suffrage Newsletter of August 1912 spelled out precisely the tasks volunteers needed to do:  help out at headquarters and sell the newsletter. My grandmother did everything that was requested. She sent out suffrage leaflets in her correspondence, stamped “Votes for Women” on her checks. She recruited supporters, sold newsletters,…

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Grandmother in her Quaker bonnet!

Marguerite Kearns April 6, 2011 1 Comment

My grandmother’s family history is important in the moral support it gave her to engage in Votes for Women. May Begley Buckman, her mother, was a temperance activist who was very much in support of woman’s suffrage. Edna Buckman Kearns was a ninth generation American on the Buckman side of her family. The Buckman family…

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Louisiana Women Celebrated With a Flair

Marguerite Kearns April 3, 2011 1 Comment

The National Women’s History Project reported that their phone rang off the hook prior to and during March. Folks from around the nation called with reports of events and many questions. Louisiana women celebrated Votes for Women with a parade where they dressed in period costume. During March a suffrage manuscript was uncovered in Connecticut…

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