All posts tagged "women’s suffrage"
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7.5KbostonMary Antin, Poster Child for Letting Immigrants Into America
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
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15.5K5MassachusettsLydia 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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14.8K4bostonThe 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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21.5K4Religion 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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9.6K4ConnecticutThe 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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8.2K1ConnecticutIn 1863, Anna Dickinson Takes New England by Storm
In 1863 with the country locked in Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s party desperately needed political support. To get it, the Republicans...
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