WRITER Mary Walton compares Alice Paul to Ghandi and Martin Luther King—OTHERS DISAGREE!

Alice Paul is finally getting the recognition she deserves. Yet, during her lifetime she wasn’t interested in glory. She kept her eye on the prize: women’s rights and the vote. Keep in mind that author Mary Walton never heard of Alice Paul before a newspaper editor brought Paul to her attention. In recent years, Walton…

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Valentine’s Day, Chinese Lunar New Year, Birthdays, and more…on Suffrage Wagon News Channel!

February is a terrific month of the Lunar New Year, of building on the past, affirming our sisters and brothers and ancestors. The top image is a front cover of a publication produced by the Women’s History Alliance in 2021. The Chinese New Year has been celebrated for ages. So has Valentine’s Day when the…

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Happy Chinese New Year from Suffrage Wagon News Channel and Marguerite Kearns, anchor

Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. It is a document of personal and historical development of one person and many others toward a goal of including women’s history as part of American history. Unless we can move from a top-down social and economic system to a horizontal social and economic system, we…

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Why is the anchor of Suffrage Wagon News Channel-Marguerite Kearns- focusing on her feet?

COLUMN FROM MARGUERITE KEARNS I started with evaluating my emphasis on my feet. They are neglected in general, says my exercise teacher. And reluctantly I admitted that the category of my mind and that of spirit are given more emphasis than my body. Yikes. This is something I have to correct. That’s why I registered…

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No one group has the corner on tea parties. . .updates from Suffrage Wagon News Channel!

There’s considerable documentation about the role that gatherings over afternoon tea were essential for the suffrage activists in terms of providing an opportunity to relax as well as plan “Votes for Women” activism. Alice Paul’s dream of a tea house for activists, reporters and sympathetic public officials came true with the establishment of “The Grated…

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