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10/29/19
Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument
by Matthew Crawford
There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.
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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: Time
8/23/19
The U.S. Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Equal Rights for Women. Here’s Why
Here’s what to know about Equal Rights Amendment history, what could happen to it next and how it could change American society.
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6/25/19
10 Things To Check Out At the Library of Congress’s New Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage
by Andrew Fletcher
Highlights from the exhibit on women's suffrage at the Library of Congress.
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6/9/19
Women Have Fought to Legalize Reproductive Rights for Nearly Two Centuries
by Lauren MacIvor Thompson
The efforts of the second-wave feminist movement transformed older ideas of voluntary motherhood, which asserted that women both didn’t have to have sex or be pregnant, into the more radical notion that women could enjoy sex without fear of becoming pregnant.
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SOURCE: History.com
6/5/2019
American Women Fought for Suffrage for 70 Years. It Took WWI to Finally Achieve It
World War I helped women around the world get the vote.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/4/2019
How racism almost killed women’s right to vote
by Kimberly A. Hamlin
Women’s suffrage required two constitutional amendments, not one.
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SOURCE: CBS News
6/4/2019
19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was passed 100 years ago today
Since the 19th Amendment's passage, women have helped inaugurate a new era of American politics.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/3/19
Women of color were cut out of the suffragist story. Historians say it’s time for a reckoning.
The story we remember this week — celebrating the 100th anniversary of Congress passing the suffrage amendment — ignores women of color and their contribution to the movement’s success.
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5/26/19
What the Fugitive Slave Law Can Teach Us About Anti-Abortion Legislation
by Ed Simon
As the Fugitive Slave Act was motivated by an inhuman racism, so are these new laws mandating forced pregnancy defined by hideous misogyny.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/12/19
It’s time to stop viewing pregnant women as threats to their babies
by Kathleen Crowther
How Georgia is continuing a centuries-long tradition, and why it must stop.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/23/19
It’s time to return black women to the center of the history of women’s suffrage
by Susan Ware
Erased by white suffragists, black women’s work was vital to the fight for women’s rights.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
4/16/19
Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today
by Arnold R. Isaacs
The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling.
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SOURCE: Time
3/5/19
Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History
by Barry Strauss
If we look hard at the history, we discover some women who made their mark, either working within their prescribed gender roles as wives, lovers, mothers, sisters or daughters, or exercising so much political, religious or, even in a few cases, military power that they smashed those roles altogether and struck out on their own.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/7/19
Long before #MeToo, women in many parts of the world organized successful campaigns against sexual violence
by Alka Kurian
Women in countries such as India, Pakistan and others have long organized successful campaigns against sexual harassment.
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SOURCE: The Cut
12-14-2018
What the Hell Is Going on With the Women’s March?
Tablet magazine has published a 10,000-plus-word investigation detailing allegations of antisemitism against Women’s March organizers.
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1/13/19
Lots of People Won New Rights in the 1960s, but Not College Women Athletes
by John Thelin
Although the 1960s has been celebrated as a period of concern for equity and social justice, colleges showed scant concern for women as student-athletes.
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SOURCE: Historic Newspapers (Special to HNN)
12/10/2018
What this graph shows about women's suffrage
And why it's so shocking.
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SOURCE: The Hill
8-1-18
Hillary Clinton to executive produce TV drama on women’s suffrage with Spielberg
"The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote," by Elaine Weiss, which its publisher calls an "inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights" - will be adapted into either a TV movie or a limited series.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3-1-18
How the devastating 1918 flu pandemic helped advance US women’s rights
by Christine Crudo Blackburn, Gerald W. Parker and Morten Wendelbo
By disproportionately affecting young men, the virus, in combination with World War I, created a shortage of labor – filled by women.
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