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19th Amendment

Alice Paul, Anita Pollitzer, and the National Woman’s Party

June 5, 2018 by Graham Duncan Leave a Comment
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5 June marks the anniversary of the official founding of the radical National Woman’s Party by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in 1916 to advocate for women’s suffrage. The NWP began as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union, a faction formed by Paul and Burns in 1913 within the larger National American Woman Suffrage Association. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: 19th Amendment, Alice Paul, Alice Pollitzer, National Woman's Party, suffragists

A Week’s Worth of Women in the News: July 26 through August 1

August 1, 2015 by Meeghan Kane Leave a Comment
Woman and child in the Little Korea neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama (1966). The image was part of an investigative inquiry into poverty in the state. Southern black woman have historically been particularly economically vulnerable in America. 

photo credit: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History

From the new statistics detailing the unrelenting challenges for black women in the South, sexual harassment in higher education, and Nina Simone’s unrelenting brilliance to the NFL’s first female coach, sexual assault and shame, resting bitch face, the real Aurora from Terms of Endearment, and Tennessee suffragists finally getting their due – here’s a week’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts & Culture, Our Voices Tagged: 19th Amendment, Jen Welter, NFL, Nina Simone, poverty, resting bitch face, sexual assault, sexual harassment, suffragists, Tennessee, Terms of Endearment

Alice, Anita, and the NWP

June 5, 2015 by Graham Duncan Leave a Comment

5 June marks the anniversary of the official founding of the radical National Woman’s Party by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in 1916 to advocate for women’s suffrage. The NWP began as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union, a faction formed by Paul and Burns in 1913 within the larger National American Woman Suffrage Association. … [Read more…]

Posted in: History Tagged: 19th Amendment, Alice Paul, Anita Pollitzer, Equal Rights Amendment, Lucy Burns, National Women's Party, Silent Sentinels, suffragist, women's suffrage