As 2 of the first women to go to college, they bonded as they defied sexist school rules. These best friends & suffragists became sisters-in-law after marrying forward thinking brothers. via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B04Da7vhzre/ Lucy...
I was thrilled to hear that Brooklyn Public Library, the 5th largest American library system, is adding Ask a Suffragist to its collection. via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Ec-8PBfHG/ Did you find Ask a Suffragist at...
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...
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...
“Mankind need only be aroused to thought to destroy forever all wrong customs.” -Antoinette Brown, 1853 Happy birthday to Antoinette Brown Blackwell, born on May 20, 1825. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first Protestant...
In 1852, Susan B. Anthony toured New York setting up local women’s temperance societies in several towns. A year later, she was dismayed to find that they had all closed due to lack of...
“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...
“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...
If women’s history is covered at all in our androcentric courses at school, it tends to occupy only a few paragraphs, maybe one chapter, of our textbooks. With most of the story omitted, how...
“‘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...
“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...
Eighty Days follows an 1889 race around the globe by two groundbreaking female reporters, Nellie Bly with the World, who traveled East from New York by steamship, and Elizabeth Bisland with Cosmopolitan, who traveled...
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