Daily Suffragist

Stories of women's unfinished struggle for citizenship; most by @RachelBTiven.
📷 Voters in Louisville KY 1920 @UofLlibraries
Centennial year posts archived ⬇️

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I can’t stop thinking about this girl. Her gorgeous smile, her presence in front of the camera. The photo was taken sometime in the 1860s. @amhistorymuseum shared it on Instagram a few days ago, and I keep coming back to it.

Long thread.

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OTD 146 years ago tomorrow, the 16th Amendment that wasn't.

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On January 10, 1878, Senator Aaron Sargent of California introduced what should have been the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.

It began “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

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@KathleenCStone Maurine Weiner Greenwald's book Women, War, and Work (1981) is really excellent on WWI women entering rail and streetcar work and fighting to stay.

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@SheDidWhatPGH I bet there's more to the story, no? Do tell!

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While first lady, Frances Cleveland presided over gatherings of the wives of her husbands’ cabinet members. This 1897 photo was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the first prominent women photographers in the United States.
#VotesforWomen

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.@OKnox reminded me that OTD in 1886, Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom. It was the only White House wedding where the President was the groom. His bride was also his ward.

Want the tawdry backstory? Read on…

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This deck of cards from the 1888 campaign features Frances as the queen and Grover as the king. That year he won the popular vote but lost the electoral college.

After one term out of office, he was re-elected in 1892 - the only time that has happened. But it has happened.

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@SheDidWhatPGH Loved it. Not too long! I met him at the Pop Shop when I was 13. Still have the t-shirt he signed. I didn't know the Pgh connection. Thank you.

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If we were counting on Tennessee today to be the last state to ratify the #19thAmendment, women still wouldn't be able to vote.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

Tennessee Republicans are voting to expel 3 Democratic lawmakers from the State House for having led pro-gun-control chants after a mass shooting at an elementary school last week. They've been removed from committees and stripped of their House IDs https://t.co/eYpcEjNjhe

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@SheDidWhatPGH @WendyLRouse No, but I want to!

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@WendyLRouse The Pankhurst women were heartbreakers! Composer Ethel Smythe was Emmeline's lover.

https://t.co/EzNPa4X1C5

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In 1910 Smyth saw Emmeline Pankhurst speak, and fell in love with the woman and the cause. They traveled together, often in disguise. Here, Mrs. Pankhurst is being arrested in 1913 outside Smyth’s home - Ethel holding the umbrella; Emmeline on Ethel’s knee.