“Let me make songs for the people,” wrote Frances, who performed her poetry like modern slam poetry, entertaining while educating about racial justice. via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvPlESBFr-/ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is one of the...
I stopped by this wonderful local bookstore and snapped a picture of Ask a Suffragist on the shelf, and while I was there, I went ahead and signed all the books in stock! #AskaSuffragist Did...
Wyoming gained statehood, becoming the first state with equal voting rights for women, on July 10, 1890. Women in Wyoming Territory had already had voting rights since 1869.
April Young Bennett spoke to the Guardian recently about income equality, the welfare program within her faith, and how improved gender equity could make the program even better. Read the article: Salt Lake City...
“While I am about the house, surrounded by my children, washing dishes, baking, sewing, I can think up many points but I cannot search books, for my hands, as well as my brains, would...
In the Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton expanded the vision of the founding fathers, declaring that all men and...
April Young Bennett joined voice expert Kara Johnstad, broadcasting from Berlin, Germany, to discuss how women can raise their voices and make themselves heard. April explains what she has learned from her own experience...
The Nineteenth Amendment had become law in 1920.
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