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Tag Archives: female suffrage
define citizen
The magic number was .75, or at least that was the magic constant and had been since the U.S. federal constitution was promulgated in 1788. According to Article 5 of the Constitution, a proposed amendment that has been approved by … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, American History, The election of 1920
Tagged Alice Paul, Bainbridge Colby, female suffrage, Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitution, Henry Rogers Selden, James Middleton Cox, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Noah Webster, Susan B. Anthony, The election of 1920, Ward Hunt, Warren Gamaliel Harding
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holiday for the homes
In October 1868 President Andrew Johnson proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving on November 26th, the last Thursday of the month. This continued a tradition begun five years earlier by Abraham Lincoln. In its November 28, 1868 issue Harper’s Weekly … Continue reading
with a little help from the men
On November 6, 1917 New York State voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that allowed women the right to vote in all elections in the state. A large New York City majority in favor of the amendment offset … Continue reading
maintaining supremacy
150 years ago this week Henry Browne Blackwell wrote an open letter to Southern state legislatures in which he put forward “the only ground of settlement between North and South which in [his] judgment can be successfully adopted.” More and … Continue reading
“pernicious isms of the day”
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper probably in 1866: FANATICS IN COUNCIL. – A so-called Equal Rights Convention was held at Rochester, on Tuesday and Wednesday last, at which a strolling company of mountebank performers, half male and half … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society
Tagged abolitionists, Andrew Johnson, Charles Lenox Remond, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Equal Rights Convention 1866, female suffrage, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, New Orleans Riot of July 1866, Parker Pillsbury, Philadelphia radical convention September 1866, Susan B. Anthony, universal suffrage
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the anonymous eight
In 1866 Elizabeth Cady Stanton ran for Congress for New York’s Eighth District as an independent – unaffiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. She didn’t win. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1866: AWFUL. – Our … Continue reading
winter wheat
I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and … Continue reading
