Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
GET THE FALL 2012 NEWSLETTER! IN THIS ISSUE: New video: “Women Voters Thank Their Suffrage Ancestors”; Grandmother Edna’s suffrage campaign wagon seen by thousands at New York State Capitol building; the book scholar Susan Ware never wrote about Alice Paul; how Kansas almost didn’t have a 2012 Votes for Women centennial; those who would repeal…
Continue ReadingNew video about the Republicans and Democrats and their appeals to women voters. The New Organizing Institute has resources and training for linking voting to leadership. Check out their activist toolbox. Our suffragist ancestors struggled for the right to vote. Now, use it! See video clip about women’s suffrage parade in San Diego! http://youtu.be/UoiQutqmrVI If…
Continue ReadingThis online quilt project speaks to tradition and connecting with the grandmothers and great grandmothers. It’s digital and exciting, whether or not you’re actually working on a suffrage quilt. I’ve signed up, just to be a vicarious participant. The site is: And the suffrage quilt block changes every week. The research about suffragists and the…
Continue ReadingEven The New York Times has picked up on the feisty British women who have a Suffragette Summer School scheduled for September 2012. A new generation of activists are looking to their suffrage tradition and history to propel themselves into motion. Is the suffrage movement a thing of the past? “No,” they respond in a…
Continue ReadingThe Journal of Women’s History (Summer 2012 edition) has a fascinating article about suffragist leader Alice Paul that at times overwhelms in its detail as author Susan Ware discusses “The Book I Couldn’t Write: Alice Paul and the Challenge of Feminist Biography.” Historian Ware set out on a year-long’s journey to write Paul’s biography and…
Continue ReadingCheck out this overview of Suffrage Wagon News Channel: who we are, how long we’ve been covering news and stories of the suffrage movement, plus why this work is important. ACTION ITEM: Help the National Women’s History Museum find a home. Sign a petition.
Continue ReadingThere’s nothing like a newspaper article of the period that reveals character. I found this article in the Nassau Post published on July 16, 1915 describing a Long Island suffrage parade. Edna Kearns is identified as the campaign press chair (second campaign district) and the way in which she addressed the crowd is noted. The reporter…
Continue ReadingThe conference held this week in Albany, New York attracted about 200 people from around the state to discuss the potential of natural, cultural, and heritage tourism in New York and to announce new signs erected on the state thruway and elsewhere directing travelers to various sites. This is excellent for artifacts such as the…
Continue ReadingWho would have thought that a suffrage parade would attract mass attention in 2012? This happened in the UK recently when descendants of suffragettes and others marched at the Olympic opening ceremonies. It’s not the best video (see link below) possible, but it gives a feel for how it must have been for the suffrage…
Continue ReadingWomen have been voting in the United States for 92 years. To celebrate, here’s a new video to help us make the most of the day! It’s from the National Women’s History Museum. http://youtu.be/4hlewywRNy8 The National Women’s History Project has wonderful resources for the celebration of August 26. Highlights include a downloadable brochure, August dates…
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