Susan B. Anthony’s holiday sleigh ride, plus December 2013 suffrage movement news notes

The Winter 2013-14 Suffrage Wagon newsletter should be in your email box. If not, here it is. Terrific article about Susan B. Anthony’s organizing sleigh ride throughout New York State at Christmas in 1854. If you read no other article about Susan B. Anthony, this is the one. It shows how Susan took advantage of an…

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They’re talking down in Washington, DC about a national womens museum

The Committee on House Administration in the U.S. Congress held a hearing on December 11, 2013 to hear testimony about establishing a commission to study the creation of a national women’s museum in the nation’s Capitol. Online streaming brought the session to a broad audience across the country. The Washington Post covered the hearing and…

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The fascinating story of suffragist Rosalie Jones, her “anti” mother and sister

Nate Levin is a real suffrage buff, and he found the article about the “Spirit of 1776” wagon and the Huntington, NY confrontation with Mrs. Jones described in the recent New York Archives article as “fascinating.” Why? Because Rosalie Jones, a prominent NYS suffrage activist, was from a divided family where her mother and sister…

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