The first book in the Ask a Suffragist series, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, will inform modern-day activists with lessons learned from some of the first American suffragists and feminists. What can modern...
In addition to being a suffragist and abolitionist, Mary Ann Shadd Cary was both the first black American woman to publish and edit a newspaper and the first to attend law school. Mary Ann...
“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapped in a napkin and buried in the earth. It is the duty of all, as far as they can, to improve their...
Utah Territory was the second place in America to extend voting rights to women, after its neighbor, Wyoming Territory.
“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony, February...
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without...
It was the first time American women voted since New Jersey women lost the right in 1807. Wyoming women also had the right to vote, but had not held an election yet since women...
About the series:
Ask a Suffragist Book Series
About the first book:
America's First Feminists
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