Book April Young Bennett as a motivational speaker for your event.
As we celebrate the Women’s Suffrage Centennial in 2019 and 2020, it is a great time to look back to what we can learn from the past as we work toward a better future....
Ask a Suffragist Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists
Learning from the Past to Become Better Activists with April Young Bennett
In this episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, April flips the script. Instead of interviewing a guest, April shares clips from recent radio interviews and podcasts in which other hosts interviewed April about...
Check out the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative.
2020 WVCI’s Educational Center offers great resources to get informed and excited for the 100th anniversary of the #19thAmendment, including (of course) #AskaSuffragist via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B3o1vV7B_lP/ Visit the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative Bookstore.
“Exceptionally well written, impressively informative, thoroughly ‘reader friendly’.” -Midwest Book Review
Reviewer Margaret Lane of Midwest Book Review describes Ask a Suffragist as “Exceptionally well written, impressively informative, thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ in organization and presentation” and adds that Ask a Suffragist is “especially endorsed...
An Interfaith Dialogue among Mormon, Catholic, Muslim and Jewish Women on Women’s Equality Day
In this special Women’s Equality Day episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, the Religious Feminism Podcast teamed up with the The Breaking Free Show for a joint episode, bringing in activists from a...
Seeing Me in History #19forthe19th
This #19forthe19th @usnatarchives Instagram challenge is different. This time, we are posting pictures of ourselves making history. Here I am (April Young Bennett, author of #AskaSuffragist) at a women’s rights march I helped organize...
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1880. Happy International #DayOfTheGirl
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else, but independent, responsible workers in carrying forward the grand eternal plans in the redemption of...
Women at Work: Mary Ann Shadd Cary
She was both the first black North American woman to publish and edit a newspaper and the first to be admitted to law school. #19forthe19th @usnatarchives via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B3HX5tBhE6j/ Mary Ann Shadd Cary is...
California women won the right to vote, doubling the nation’s female voters, on October 10, 1911.
California women’s strategy of organizing in rural counties, where opposition was less organized, paid off for California women when rural counties carried the vote for women’s suffrage in 1911. When California women won the...
“The fact that somebody is displeased is no evidence that we are wrong.” —Mary Ann Shadd, 1854
“The fact that somebody is displeased is no evidence that we are wrong.” —Mary Ann Shadd, 1854 Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first black woman in North America to edit a newspaper and...
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
“A book that was truly a struggle to put down!” -Spunky, Exponent II
Reviewer Spunky at Exponent II writes that Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists “reads as if it were a well-written novel. It is as engaging as it is smart…a book...
Women in Lit: Julia Ward Howe #19forthe19th
Writing gave her a platform for causes she believed in like feminism and pacifism (ironic for a woman best known for writing the Civil War anthem Battle Hymn of the Republic). #19forthe19th @usnatarchives via...
