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As we celebrate the Women’s Suffrage Centennial in 2020, it is a great time to look back to what we can learn from the past as we work toward a better future. April Young...
Ask a Suffragist Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists
“There is an odd side to all reformers, to all who are pursuing a new idea earnestly, that is very whimsical.” -Elizabeth Blackwell, 1895
“There is an odd side to all reformers, to all who are pursuing a new idea earnestly, that is very whimsical.” -Elizabeth Blackwell, 1895 Happy birthday to Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to...
Happy birthday to Harriet Forten Purvis, an abolitionist, suffragist and woman of color who helped establish the first multiracial women’s abolitionist group.
Happy birthday to Harriet Forten Purvis, born February 1, 1810. Harriet was an abolitionist, suffragist and woman of color who helped establish the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, a multiracial activist group at a time when...
“All I ask for myself I claim for my wife and sister.” –Charles Lenox Remond, 1867
“All I ask for myself I claim for my wife and sister. Let our action be based upon the rock of everlasting principle. No class of citizens in this country can be deprived of...
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This will not last, but right now, Amazon is selling the Large Print edition of Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists for the insane price of only $6.01 a copy!...
“Teach our daughters that they are as much bound to become independent as their brothers.” -Abby Kelley Foster, 1851
“Women, revolt at the idea of marrying for the sake of a home, for the sake of a support—of marrying the purse instead of the man. …Teach our daughters that they are as much...
‘”Agitate! Agitate!’ ought to be the motto of every reformer.” -Ernestine Rose
“‘Agitate! Agitate!’ ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation — the one is life, the other death.” Ernestine Rose, March 28, 1860 Happy birthday to Ernestine Polowsky Rose, born...
Utah became a state, the 3rd with votes for women, on January 4, 1896.
Utah Territory had already enfranchised women in 1870. Utah women voted for 17 years before Congress overruled Utah’s suffrage law and revoked Utah women’s voting rights. When Utah achieved statehood, Utah included women’s suffrage in...
“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it cannot appreciate it.” –Lucretia Mott, 1849
“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it cannot appreciate it.” –Lucretia Mott, 1849 Happy birthday to Lucretia Mott, born January 3, 1793. Lucretia Mott is one...
