Features suffrage wagon at the New York State Museum —SOON, Permanent Exhibition
Here’s the link to the blog post from SUNY Press written by Marguerite Kearns about being a minority of one. Sound familiar? Blog posting. Many of us today are “bearing witness” to issues we care about. This blog posting draws attention to a process many of us are already familiar with. It has the added…
Continue ReadingWe’ve been busy spreading the word about the book by Marguerite Kearns from SUNY Press (2021)— An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Human Rights. For bookings and interviews, leave a message for Marguerite Kearns (855) toll free 553 3666. August 1, 2022. Book review of An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I wrote about one branch of my family in my book published by SUNY Press (State University of New York), An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights. MY THOUGHTS ON THE EARLY WAVES OF THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT My family tales are something that have been passed…
Continue ReadingEITHER WE TRASH AND BASH, OR OPEN THE DOORS TO JUSTICE The momentum for a US amendment to the US Constitution has been ongoing since 1923. Think about it. Close to 100 years. When activists across the nation realized that US women had been voting for 100 years in 2020, there was a full-out effort…
Continue ReadingPrepare to serve tea on August 26th, Women’s Equality Day in the US. A lot of US women are angry about the jail cells we will inhabit in the future based on the current campaigns underway at the Supreme Court and elsewhere.
Continue ReadingA blast from the past showing what suffrage (voting rights activists) were concerned about over 100 years ago. This news article shows how and why.
Continue ReadingNot 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.
Continue ReadingACTION TO TAKE: Sign the petition supporting building of an infrastructure to bring about the designation of August 26th as a federal holiday.
Continue ReadingThe 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…
Continue ReadingGet 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.
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