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One day in 1917, a dozen women gathered in front of the White House. They were staging a silent protest to call for women’s right to vote.
Spectators yelled at them, kicked them, and spit on them. They ripped the women’s banners from their hands and threw them onto the ground.
...Today the President will designate a national monument for women's equality. Page Harrington talks about why this matters for women's history. 
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This week marks the 166th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the 1848 meeting responsible for making the first formal demand for women’s suffrage. Via bobbygw
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She stands as one of our nation's most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy. She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862 and died in Chicago, Illinois 1931 at the age of sixty-nine.
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Speaking of suffrage colors... A news clipping from the New Brunswick Times, October 15, 1915, about Miss Ellen Murray who threw an anti-suffrage party: The house was decorated in the colors of the...
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Essentially a catalogue of 19th century arguments against women’s suffrage, Bushnell predicted social disintegration if American women were ever allowed to participate in politics. Voting would change the character and behaviour of women, Bushnell claimed; involvement in campaigns and debates would make them “nasty… artful and cunning”. Political equality would also upset the power balance in marriages, leading to conflict, divorce and family breakdowns. One of Bushnell’s more outlandish claims is that...
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New Jersey is unique, in that it was the last place in the U.S. where women had the right to vote prior to Wyoming’s enfranchisement of women in 1869. Those who owned a certain amount of property, regardless of their gender or race, were allowed to vote here from 1776 until 1807, when the Legislature passed a law restricting the vote to white males, with the restrictions against women still on the books.
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Today in 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment, which guarantees citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification.
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Current Royal Holloway researcher Emer O'Toole encounters the spirit of former student and suffragette Emily Wilding Davison
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The scarlet letters of this authentic suffrage poster read, “A Woman Living Here Has Registered to Vote Thereby Assuming Responsibility Of Citizenship.” Because that’s what voting is, a responsibility of...
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