Features suffrage wagon at the New York State Museum —spring 2024, Permanent Exhibition
The women’s suffrage movement was diverse. It included compromises. No one ever claimed it was perfect. It was NOT unilateral. Viewing the movement to win recognition in the larger mainstream culture is the goal of a podcast series underway by the NYC Department of Records & Information Services. I’m in support because I grew up…
Continue Reading“The dungeon I was in was very filthy, tobacco spit on the floor and all along the side of the filthy bunk; dirty horse blankets, open dirty toilet, no water, dark and damp. I was so cold my teeth chattered all night. Superintendent Whittaker ran up and down the corridor screaming to the guards to…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I wrote the book, “An Unfinished Revolution” because if I didn’t, no one would have. I chose what I believed would be an “easy” book for starters. I found out quickly that women’s rights as a topic, even its history, isn’t easy. Even the fact that I waited to begin the documentation…
Continue ReadingBLOG POST ABOUT SUFF ACTIVIST ELISABETH FREEMAN Peg Johnston, suffrage activist Elisabeth Freeman’s great niece, contacted me recently. Here’s her post ro say that s she gathered the energy to write about Elisabeth that was inspired by a book that has made its way to us suffrage nuts. See below. Edna Kearns and Elisabeth Freeman…
Continue Reading“Alice Paul brought back to the fight that note of immediacy which had gone with the passing of Miss Anthony’s leadership. She called a halt on further pleading, wheedling, proving, praying. It was as if she had bidden women stand erect, with confidence in themselves and in their own judgments, and compelled them to be…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns This illustrati9n accompanied a feature article about the Spirit of 1776 horsedrawn suffrage campaign wagon in the collection of the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. The feature article appeared in New York History Journal tbat is published by Columbia University. The imagined documentary or feature series about my grandmother…
Continue ReadingHandwringing isn’t a satisfying answer as long as we are out there all alone when responding to an unacceptable situation. Venting is a useful process as long as it doesn’t take twenty to thirty years. The appropriate action is what is called for. Applying horizontal values to a vertical system may work sometimes, but it…
Continue ReadingHere’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…
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