“‘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 Potowska Rose,...
Many of the earliest prominent suffragists were New Yorkers: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, to name a few. However their efforts were most often rewarded...
Ernestine Rose coined the phrase, “Women’s rights are human rights.” She was an activist in Poland and England and fought for the rights of American women after immigrating to the United States. via Instagram...
For Every Girl, Woman or Female Activist, The most striking message woven into the fabric of April Young Bennett’s extraordinary and intimate look at the women who first stood for women’s rights is the...
“If I have no faith in your religion, I have faith; unbounded, unshaken faith; in the principles of right, of justice and humanity. Whatever good you are willing to do for the sake of...
It has been nearly 100 years since the Nineteenth Amendment gave (most) American women the right to vote and it took about a hundred years of activism to win that right. The first...
The first book in the Ask a Suffragist series, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, informs modern-day activists with lessons learned from some of the first American suffragists and feminists. Where can I buy...
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America's First Feminists
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