suffragists

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• SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
  Accessed 9/4/19
  

  The Life of Black Suffragist Adella Hunt Logan

  by Adele Logan Alexander

  The brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/21/19
  

  Historians Raise Concerns Over Central Park’s Suffragist Monument

  “If Sojourner Truth is added,” the letter reads, “it could obscure the substantial differences between white and black suffrage activists, and would be misleading.”

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7/30/19
  

  The Library of Congress Wants Your Help Transcribing Suffragist Papers

  Nearly 16,000 pages of diaries, letters, speeches and other documents are available on the library’s crowdsourcing platform.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/12/2019
  

  When American Suffragists Tried to ‘Wear the Pants’

  by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

  Starting in the 1850s, proponents of the movement for women’s rights traded their long dresses for bloomers—and paid a heavy social price for it.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1/4/19
  

  Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, 77, Dies; Historian Recognized Black Suffragists

  Rosalyn Terborg-Penn's writing recalled how the racial split between white and black suffragists became glaringly obvious in 1913 when black participants in a Washington protest march were ordered to walk at the rear.

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• 12/24/17
  

  Black Women Are Using the Vote They Fought So Hard to Win

  by Jillean McCommons

  Their votes are shifting politics left.

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• 2-7-17
  

  Wearing Pink Pussyhats Continues the Long Tradition of Using Fashion in the Service of Feminism

  by Anthony Toth

  Who would have guessed that the largest one-day protest in American history would have as its most recognizable symbol a fuzzy pink cap with cat ears?

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  1-9-17
  

  For Anti-Trump Protesters: Lessons From the First White House Protests

  by Peter Dreier

  Those protests were on behalf of the cause of women's suffrage.

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• 12-27-16
  

  Trump Got You Down? Here’s Inspiration.

  by Sandra Weber

  It’s the story of how suffragists prevailed in the long run by championing human rights.