Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
This second audio podcast of “Playing Politics with the President” is a provocative look at the determination of women to press the issue of their rights in 1913. I love the description of the first deputation to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson –and then the second and the third. We’re not hearing this account from people…
Continue ReadingI’m still working out the details of my Susan B. Anthony speech for the party commemorating the June 19, 1873 presentation Susan gave in court at the Ontario County, NY courthouse for her trial for illegal voting. The occasion: her trial for illegal voting. The courthouse is located in what’s known as the “Cradle” of…
Continue ReadingAre you familiar with Turning Point Suffragist Memorial? The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association needs financial help to begin construction of a national memorial to those women who went to jail to win the right to vote. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial must meet a November 30, 2014, deadline for funding initial construction. Let’s help them…
Continue ReadingAlice Paul: Claiming Power by J.D. Zahniser with Amelia R. Fry is an upcoming book expected to be published in September 2014 by Oxford University Press. Suffrage leader Alice Paul may have preferred to be remain out of the limelight as she organized the picketing of the White House and other controversial actions that resulted…
Continue ReadingThe suffrage movement or “women’s suffrage” may seem like a niche topic, yet the news items concerning Votes for Women events and activities increase by the day. Here’s a sampling: Statewide conference planning underway for 2017 suffrage centennial of women voting in New York State by CRREO (the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach)…
Continue Reading[one_half_last]The power of a cup of tea in the suffrage movement is spelled out in this two-part series by Ken Florey, the author of a book, soon to be released, on suffrage memorabilia. See: Part #1. Part #2. Alice Paul’s tea house, The Grated Door, also tied the tea room with organizing for the movement. For descriptions of…
Continue ReadingThis appeal sent to Edna Buckman Kearns sparked the desire to get in line in the procession. It’s the first time in her writings that Edna mentions speaking to Alice Paul on the parade route where they shared concerns about the crowd that was out of control. Edna and Serena Kearns marched in the Quaker…
Continue ReadingI can’t tell you how happy I am to see the interest and attention increasing over the planned events in March 1-3, 2013, in Washington, DC to commemorate the centennial of the 1913 big suffrage parade. It’s when Grandmother Edna Kearns met Alice Paul for the first time, though they did have similar cultural roots…
Continue Reading“The Grated Door” was the tea room for the National Woman’s Party. The selection below is from The Story of The Woman’s Party by Inez Haynes Irwin. 1921. LINK. “Alice Paul’s office, which is on the second floor, was done in purple and gold; the woodwork of gold, the furniture upholstered in purple velvet. Later,…
Continue ReadingIt’s one thing to read about the split between Alice Paul and the main suffrage organization at the time, NAWSA. It’s quite another to realize that Grandmother Edna Kearns witnessed it. An article in the New York Tribune in November following the big 1913 suffrage parade laid out how the New Yorkers headed to Washington,…
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