Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Video and audio about August 26th or Women’s Equality Day, available now. Plus an audio reading of the 1971 resolution that passed Congress. Video: “Rap and Roll the Suffrage Wagon” celebrates August 26th. Audio: Amelia Bowen reads the text of the Women’s Equality Day resolution that passed the US Congress in 1971. Audio: T. Fowler’s…
Continue ReadingSuffrage activists didn’t let the centennial of the Declaration of Independence pass in 1876 without a demonstration. In this chapter of her memoir, Elizabeth Cady Stanton explains the preparations associated with traveling to Philadelphia to make the point that the American Revolution remained unfinished as long as women were denied the ballot and basic civil…
Continue ReadingBig week in Albany, NY with legislative resolution highlighting “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon: Book about Long Island suffrage movement expected to be published in late June 2013. #1. #2. “Spirit of 1776” wagon cited on State Senator Little’s web page. #1. #2. Overview of the wagon’s travels in Albany, NY. #1. #2. News 10 in…
Continue ReadingIt has been a great week and there’s more to come. One hundred years ago the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon made a “stir” with the coverage of its first journey in the New York Times. And one hundred years later, almost to the week, the wagon made a stir at the New York State…
Continue ReadingState of New York Legislative Resolution (Senate: 2421, Assembly: 642) Whereas, New York State is the cradle for the women’s rights movement in the United States and it is critically important to celebrate women’s history as well as support programs that build economic development through cultural and heritage tourism, including the development of a New…
Continue Readingby Kenneth Florey Suffragists in America also promoted automobile tours as a way of advertising “Votes for Women.” The most famous trip was that of Alice Snitzer Burke and Nell Richardson in 1916. The pair left New York on April 6, accompanied by their new kitten called “Mascot,” to make a circuit of the United…
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