Greetings Sister Suffragists! A big Happy Birthday to the 19th Amendment. In honor of its 90th anniversary, here are some suffrage related links for you, as well as a video treat from Disney’s Mary Poppins. Enjoy! Not All Women Won the Right to Vote Today – Womanist Musings A Forgotten Fight for Suffrage – New [...]
August 18th marked the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which formally granted women the right to vote in the United States. When we think about the women’s suffrage movement, we usually conjure images of women wearing purple sashes and carrying banners that say “Votes For Women.” Women of the western states [...]
Each Women’s History Month the portrait of Susan B. Anthony decorates classroom walls around the country. What many people this year will not realize is that a heated debate is taking place involving the life of the 19th Century suffrage leader, and of all things, whether or not she opposed abortion. Several conservative organizations, calling [...]
In 1913, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded what would come to be called the “National Women’s Party”. The seal pictured was the official flag of the party, there were 36 stars to represent the 36 states needed to ratify the 19th Amendment which allowed women access to the right to vote. Now, i’m pretty [...]
