Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
There’s a terrific article about women journalists in Substack…a commentary on exactly how far women have come in the journalism profession: https://substack.com/notes/post/p-121253833 It is a terrific way to remember what different folks have asked me over the years. .I started working for a newspaper in 1972. It was a liberating era in the profession when…
Continue ReadingWomen’s Marches & Parades: “The Song of the Women” on Vimeo. This video has been a favorite of the hundreds of short informational and promotional videos produced by Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Antonia Petrash has been using this video, “The Song of the Women,” to accompany her Long Island suffragist presentations for the past few years….
Continue ReadingEdna Buckman Kearns will be honored among the tens of thousands of women who were part of the first wave of the women’s rights movement in the U.S. on August 26th, Women’s Equality Day.
Continue ReadingEquality Celebrations and Women’s Suffrage News Notes on Vimeo. It’s the countdown for August 26th, Women’s Equality Day, The People’s Town Hall, cosponsored by Women on 20s, Women You Should Know, Unite Women New York, and the Department of Records and Information Services/WomensActivism.NYC. A panel of speakers includes Liz Abzug (moderator) – consultant, professor, attorney/lobbyist; Rosemonde Pierre-Louis…
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon Cafe is the go-to place! on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon Cafe opens its doors on August 8th for a special celebration of August 26th, Women’s Equality Day. August 26th is the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What does this mean? That American women have been citizens for 95…
Continue ReadingHave you set plans in motion to celebrate August 26th, Women’s Equality Day? Fun gifts and other products available to inform your event are available from the National Women’s History Project. Are you following the audio podcasts from Seneca Falls? Five of the total series of seven podcasts, “Trouble Brewing in Seneca Falls,” have been…
Continue ReadingFirst, there’s the preparation for the celebration you’re going to have on or about August 26th, Women’s Equality Day. The National Women’s History Project has all sorts of cool things to buy to make things easy. Balloons, posters, buttons. Guests love take home items and prancing around wearing buttons. You add the invitations, the goodies,…
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