Updates from Suffrage Wagon News Channel

NEWS FROM SUFFRAGE WAGON NEWS CHANNEL: Interest is increasing from around the nation by women planning to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Many of these candidates are focusing on health care, education, early childhood development, family leave, and workplace equality. This year is the 170th anniversary of the 1848 women’s rights convention held…

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In the front lines of action!

 This article from a suffrage newsletter highlights grassroots organizing on Long Island during 1912. From the archive of Edna Buckman Kearns,this document shows Edna on the platform speaking for over an hour, along with selling memorabilia for fundraising. It’s one of many examples of the extensive campaigning during 1912 on Long Island (New York)….

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U.S. Rep Louise Slaughter carried on important work for women!

Thank you, Louise Slaughter (1929-2018) for your work benefitting American women! from Marguerite Kearns on Vimeo.U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter died during March, Women’s History Month, in 2018. After serving four years in the New York State Assembly, her district’s voters sent her to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 30th Congressional district. She…

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Publicity about “Spirit of 1776” votes for women wagon featured in historic marker in Huntington, NY

An article in “Huntington Now,” an online publication featuring the April 24, 2018 dedication ceremony of the historic marker funded by the Pomeroy Foundation. The marker featured the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns and others, and it is located in the business district of the Huntington, New York community. See link. …

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