Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton The tears and complaints of the women who came to my father for legal advice touched my heart, and early drew my attention to the injustice and cruelty of the laws. As the practice of the law was my father’s business, I could not exactly understand why he could not alleviate…
Continue ReadingThis video shows New York City’s women who marched in suffrage parades. Click on “Read More.” There’s an emphasis in the poem by Florence Kiper about the courage and physical stamina it took to go out in public in a time when women stayed close to home. It took persistence and determination. Florence Kiper wrote…
Continue ReadingNEWS ALERT: Two suffrage programs on UK television. One is a documentary on suffragette Emily Davison TODAY that can be viewed online. The other is a three-episode suffrage sitcom, “Up the Women” (see trailer) that starts this coming Thursday, May 30th. See overview and episode summaries: #1, #2, #3. And now for Suffrage Bookshelf: ___________________________________ Marching…
Continue ReadingIn the spring of 1914, suffrage leader Harriot Stanton Blatch continued experimenting with various forms of publicizing suffrage and purchased a used, horse-drawn van, with the intention of converting it into a roving shop. The van was moved from place to place every few days, and sold a variety of suffrage literature and memorabilia such…
Continue ReadingOne hundred years ago English suffragette Emily Davison stepped in front of the king’s horse at the Derby to draw attention to the long and difficult campaign to win the vote. Emily Davison’s death remains newsworthy and controversial today. Because of the upcoming centennial of Davison’s death in June 2013, a great deal is appearing…
Continue ReadingDevlin, Marilyn Nunes. A Brief History of Rockville Centre: The History and Heritage of a Village (NY), 2011. Page 69. PDF “E.D. Buckman genealogical collection on the Buckman and allied families,” Historical Society of Pennsylvania. PDF Adams, Katherine H. and Michael L. Keene. Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign, University of Illinois Press, 2008. PDF-1 PDF-2 Emmert, Sara A. “Museum…
Continue Readingby Kenneth Florey The Women’s Political Union was organized in 1910 by Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It evolved out of her earlier Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, created in 1907 to provide working women with a voice in their own lives. The Union eventually became incorporated within Alice Paul’s Congressional Union…
Continue ReadingQuestion #1: What suffrage stories did you hear when you were young? My mother told me that my grandmother Edna and her generation did important work so that women could vote. I was a shy kid and couldn’t wait until the lesson on the suffrage or Votes for Women movement was taught in school. I…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I rarely thought of myself as a suffrage descendant when I was young. There were too many other ways of viewing myself, especially my social position and various roles in life. Late in life I’ve embraced the descendant label of a “suffragist’s granddaughter.” And I realize the extent to which I’ve been…
Continue ReadingYou’d think the article wasn’t important: the news that greenhouse gas has reached a high never before encountered by humans! It appeared yesterday on page 5 in my local paper. Two million years ago was the last time greenhouse gas levels were this high. COMING SOON: Suffrage Wagon columnist Tara Bloyd launches a letter writing…
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