All posts tagged "suffrage"
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3.9KMassachusettsHow Louisa May Alcott Voted for the First Time in 1880
On March 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott voted with 19 other women for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. The...
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9.0K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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9.9K1ConnecticutThe Antis: Women Who Fought Against the Vote
In the late 19th century, women known as antis began to organize against women who wanted the right to vote. The antis...
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7.5K1MassachusettsLucy Downing, Puritan Wife and Harvard Founder
In the spring of 1636, Lucy Downing wrote a letter from England to her older brother, John Winthrop, six years after he...
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9.4K5MassachusettsLydia Chapin Taft – New England’s First Woman Voter
Lydia Chapin Taft was the first woman to legally vote in New England. The year was 1756, and the issue of taxation...
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20.9K3MassachusettsEdward Hammond Clarke and the Chance for Girls
Education was a hot topic in the 1870s: How much one needed and who should get it. Edward Hammond Clarke sought to...
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25.4K2Business and LaborAnnie Jenness Miller Rescues Fashion Victims of the 1890s
Annie Jenness Miller came down from the mountains of New Hampshire with a message for the women of America: “Take off your...
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9.9K4bostonThe Woman Suffrage Cook Book Prints Recipes for Subversion
Putting together the first woman suffrage cook book in 1886 must have been a lot like herding cats for Hattie A. Burr...
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11.1K3Religion and Social MovementsThe Anti-Wedding of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell
Henry Blackwell fell in love at first sight. Lucy Stone, the mild- looking but fire-breathing women’s rights advocate, mesmerized the young man....
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5.1K4ConnecticutThe Glastonbury Cows and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
In the early days of the fight for women’s voting rights, Connecticut’s Glastonbury cows were the stars of the show. In June...
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