Not many people know there was a Quaker division in the 1913 women’s suffrage parade in Washington, DC. Edna used the phrase “Quaker division, but the official name was Equal Rights Association, a Quaker organization.

ACTION TO TAKE: Sign the petition supporting building of an infrastructure to bring about the designation of August 26th as a federal holiday.

The National Women’s History Alliance will publish the first issue of its new magazine soon. Make sure you get a copy when it’s ready. OTHER NEWS FROM SUFFRAGE WAGON NEWS CHANNEL SUFFRAGIST activists discovered the power of the press when it had activists witnessing and writing the news, much as citizen journalists can be described…

Get ready to celebrate with us Edna Kearns’ birthday on December 25th. Also—book on the Kearns family’s women rights activism in a memoir and family history by Marguerite Kearns due in the spring of 2021.

Celebrations across the nation planned to acknowledge the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, plus digital Quaker gravestone ceremony during October 2020.

Responses of the men to injustice during 1913. A column by Marguerite Kearns at SuffrageWagon News Channel.

Planning for 2020 with new priorities in mind!

We haven’t forgotten the US suffrage martyr Inez Milholland in plans for International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020.

An appeal to consider when you stop by the Suffrage Wagon Cafe.

by Marguerite Kearns During the 1970s and 1980s I lived in Ulster County where Sojourner Truth was born and raised in captivity. I found Sojourner Truth to be among the courageous residents of Ulster County even though she had a very mixed experience there. Today the university library at SUNY New Paltz is named after…