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The 19th Amendment, Women's Suffrage, and the Long Game of Democracy(Post)
After decades of feminist persistence, the 19th Amendment was ratified 99 years ago today. Tennessee provided the winning margin - by just a single vote. Tennessee’s given a lot to America.
What Freedom Really Looked Like: Women's Suffrage in America(Post)Native Americans were key allies in the struggle for women's suffrage in the United States On the 18th of August, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect when ...
Alice Paul: A brave yet imperfect fight for the 19th Amendment (Post)Alice Paul was key to the campaign for women's enfranchisement in the US. Sadly, she abandoned other groups pursuing freedom along the way. Alice Paul, the New Jersey feminist crucial to winning ...
Voting for the Right to Vote: The Strange Case of Jeannette Rankin(Post)Born on this day in 1880, Jeannette Rankin was the first Congresswoman in US history “If I am remembered for no other act I want to be remembered as the only woman who ever voted to give women t ...
US Women's History Month and the Wider Progressive Movement(Post)In a Radical Tea Towel email earlier this month, I wrote about how International Women’s Day (8th March) originated in the European socialist movement. But it’s important to stress that ...
The 19th Amendment: How Women in America Fought for the Vote(Post)Today marks the centenary of the 19th Amendment, the culmination of a struggle which had contested the limits of what it means to be human in the United States.Source: Schlesinger Library on the Hist ...
Frances Harper and the Poetry of Freedom(Post)Frances Harper, the unofficial poet laureate of abolition, was born today in 1825. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911 (Source: Library of Congress) Make me a grave where’er you will In a ...
Democracy on Trial: United States v. Susan B. Anthony(Post)Arrested for voting in 1872, Susan B. Anthony put her freedom on the line to fight for suffrage... The US has a long and still unfinished history of voter suppression. But the disenfran ...
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President(Post)Way before Hillary Rodham Clinton, there was Victoria Woodhull... What links free love, Wall Street, and the Communist Manifesto? Or should I say: who? Victoria Woodhull, the fi ...
The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Struggle(Post)William Lloyd Garrison, circa 1870 The abolitionist you probably haven't heard of... ‘It was the glory of this man that he could stand alone with the truth, and calmly await the result.’&nb ...
"If One Link In The Chain Is Broken, The Chain Is Broken": Dr. Anna Julia Cooper’s Lesson for American Feminism(Post)Dr. Anna Julia Cooper, born today in 1858, stands alongside the likes of Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells in the long and fierce history of black women standing up to racist prejudice as part of the ...
Seneca Falls: The Dawn of the Women's Rights Movement in America (Post)The 1848 women's rights convention held at Seneca falls was the CEDAW of its time. A women's rights movement in America was born and the hope it inspired would spread throughout the world. " ...
The Radical Life of Harriet Tubman(Post)Back in 2012, "Django Unchained" shook up the film world as Quentin Tarantino’s latest masterpiece. The film's central figure, Django (depicted memorably by Jamie Foxx) escapes his enslavemen ...
Mr. Democracy: The Life and Work of John Dewey(Post)The American philosopher and radical activist John Dewey was born on this day in 1859 America has a proud tradition of public intellectuals on the Left. Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Audre Lorde ...
What 'Radical' Means to Us(Post)It's a word we throw around a lot... but what do we actually mean?Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)People often ask us ...
Thomas Dorr's Fight for Democracy in the United States of America(Post)On the day of Thomas Wilson Dorr’s birth, we remember a little-known chapter in history of American democracy and what it has to teach us about democratic empowerment today. Democracy is never 'w ...