Features suffrage wagon at the New York State Museum —spring 2024, Permanent Exhibition
“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 ReadingWatch the videos from our friends supporting Suffrage Wagon News Channel. We have been publishing since 2009. Now we’re working with our sister site, SuffrageCentennials.com, to support passage of an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. This year, 2023, US women have been working for such an amendment for 100 years. THE IMPORTANCE OF…
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 ReadingSUFFRAGETTES ANTHEM – SPIRIT OF 1776 from on Vimeo. Make sure that you see the inauguration live at 2. p.m. EST from New York. It is historic, and the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns. in 1913 in. New York City and Long Island has an important part! Suffrage Wagon News Channel…
Continue ReadingWATCH THE INAUGURATION OF NEW YORK STATE’S FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR, KATHY HOCHUL Make sure you’re on hand to watch the inaugural ceremony of Kathy Hochul, first woman elected governor of New York State. It’s scheduled for January 1, 2023, EST, at 2. p.m. Watch online by searching for live coverage! A special thanks to those…
Continue ReadingSuffragists Martha Wright & Edna Kearns Dec. 25th birthdays on Vimeo. In 2022, activist and writer Edna Buckman Kearns will be celebrating her 140th birthday. And suffrage activist Martha Coffin Wright is 216 years old. For bookings and interviews, leave a message for Marguerite Kearns (855) toll free 553 3666. This multi-media suffrage news channel…
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 ReadingFrom Marguerite Kearns: It’s easy to forget the effort and enormous accomplishments of the past when facing the unknown. and what we perceive to be prejudice and discrimination in the present moment. And so I am persisting in remembering. One thing that lent itself to invisibility was the networking many of us engaged with over…
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