All posts tagged "suffrage"
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40.1K2Business and LaborAnnie Jenness Miller Rescues 1890s Fashion Victims, Invents Sportswear
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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13.9K4bostonThe 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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19.0K4Religion 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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7.9K4ConnecticutThe Glastonbury Cows Get Caught up in the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
In the early days of the fight for women’s voting rights, Connecticut’s Glastonbury cows got caught in the crossfire. In June of...
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37.6K15ConnecticutHelen Keller, Not Quite the Nice Lady Who Campaigned for Peace
Helen Keller in the winter of 1913 sent $87 to help immigrant textile workers on strike in Little Falls, N.Y. She was...
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5.3K2Religion and Social MovementsCrystal Eastman Keeps Her Name, Doesn’t Do Housework
Crystal Eastman wanted to change the world for women and to change the way women lived in the world. For that, she...
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