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I am ridiculously excited about a suffrage conference next week...
IHO 150 years of 15th Amdt & 100 years of 19th Amdt, the Massachusetts Historical Society is hosting a 🏅 panel *each day.* @MHS1791 @MHS_Research
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IHO 150 years of 15th Amdt & 100 years of 19th Amdt, the Massachusetts Historical Society is hosting a 🏅 panel *each day.* @MHS1791 @MHS_Research
Free! Registration at bottom.
Select highlights to tempt you:
Monday @ 2 ET
@EllenDubois10’s new work on the long relationship between ElizCadyStanton & Frederick Douglass;
Thomas Dublin with new discoveries & interpretation on #BlackSuffragists
@LynnEckert4 on doctors
and @ProfMSinha tying it all together.
@EllenDubois10’s new work on the long relationship between ElizCadyStanton & Frederick Douglass;
Thomas Dublin with new discoveries & interpretation on #BlackSuffragists
@LynnEckert4 on doctors
and @ProfMSinha tying it all together.
Tuesday @ 12 ET
Marriage! inc. a paper I’m so eager to hear by @HQuanquin about Stephen and Abby Kelley Foster, and more.
Wednesday @ 2 ET
Empire - @Laura_R_Prieto on the Philippines, @SilvanaSiddali on African American voters in 19th c. midwest & Sunu Kodumthara on Oklahoma.
Marriage! inc. a paper I’m so eager to hear by @HQuanquin about Stephen and Abby Kelley Foster, and more.
Wednesday @ 2 ET
Empire - @Laura_R_Prieto on the Philippines, @SilvanaSiddali on African American voters in 19th c. midwest & Sunu Kodumthara on Oklahoma.
Yesterday I filed an amicus brief on behalf of @ProjectLincoln in the US District Court of Western Texas.
We argued that @GovAbbott's proclamation limiting counties to one ballot return drop-box both hinders voting and poses a risk to voters.
#VoteByMail2020
#BallotDropBox
We argued that @GovAbbott's proclamation limiting counties to one ballot return drop-box both hinders voting and poses a risk to voters.
#VoteByMail2020
#BallotDropBox
2/ The proclamation equated to #VoterSuppression, particularly in counties with huge populations like Harris, Travis, and Fort Bend.
#VoteByMail2020
#BallotDropBox
#VoteByMail2020
#BallotDropBox
3/ @ProjectLincoln refused to stand by and watch while @GovAbbott undermined the election in Texas.
We support the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens, @LWVTexas and other plaintiffs' request for relief from his unconstitutional order.
#VoteByMail2020
#BallotDropBox
We support the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens, @LWVTexas and other plaintiffs' request for relief from his unconstitutional order.
#VoteByMail2020
#BallotDropBox
#tdih 1780, abolitionist Paul Cuffee and other free African Americans petitioned the Massachusetts gov't to either give African and Native Americans the right to vote or to stop taxing them. #TeachOutsideTextebook Read more ⬇️zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/paul…
"That we being chiefly of the African extract, and by reason of long bondage and hard slavery, we have been deprived of enjoying the profits of our labor or the advantage of inheriting estates from our parents, as our neighbors the white people do," -- petition, 1780
#TeachVotingRights on this 150th anniversary of the #15thAmendment (1870) and an election year. The three lesson unit below includes a mixer on the fight for voting rights -- with stories dating back to 1740 and up to current events. zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…
#tdih 1870, 15th Amendment ratified. However, promise of 3rd Reconstruction amendment was blocked for almost a century through use of poll taxes, violence, & more — and recently by voter ID laws, felon disenfranchisement, & other voter suppression tactics. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/15th…
In collaboration with @ColorOfChange, we have launched campaign to #TeachVotingRights on this 150th anniv. of 15th Amendment, also an election year -- a crucial time to teach about long history of fight for voting rights and contemporary voter suppression. zinnedproject.org/news/campaign-…
Find new unit with 3 lessons, "Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights" by @LadyOfSardines (Includes mixer on long history of voter suppression & fight for voting rights, & close reading of interview with Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer.) zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…
