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Charles Lenox Remond was the most prominent Black abolitionist in the US until he was overshadowed by Frederick Douglass.
Remond’s commitment to women’s rights was as deep as FD’s, maybe deeper. He should be remembered for his feminism.
Long thread.
Remond’s commitment to women’s rights was as deep as FD’s, maybe deeper. He should be remembered for his feminism.
Long thread.
Charles Remond was the oldest son of eight children of Nancy Lenox and John Remond of Salem, Massachusetts. He had six sisters. Their grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War.
The photograph above was taken in the 1850s by Samuel S. Broadbent. via @BPLBoston
The photograph above was taken in the 1850s by Samuel S. Broadbent. via @BPLBoston
Until Charles Remond, the most visible spokespeople for abolition were white. Remond was a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Soc. & the first Black man to lecture widely against slavery.
In 1840, he was invited to join a delegation to the World Antislavery Conventn in London.
In 1840, he was invited to join a delegation to the World Antislavery Conventn in London.
A hundred years ago today, women gathered around the Commonwealth of Virginia to cast their first official votes.
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About 77K Virginia women voted for the first time on Nov. 2, 1920. A Martinsville woman spoke for countless others when she told her husband to "put on your collar and your coat" that morning because "this is a day of triumph and dignity." #Vote #ElectionDay #suffrage100
"Three women were the first to cast their vote in the first ward," reported the Alexandria Gazette, on Nov. 2, 1920, "being at the polls before the men." #Vote #ElectionDay #suffrage100 #19thAmendment
We gotta talk about lesbians. Specifically, about lesbian erasure.
Queer is cool, right? It’s 2020! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️etc., etc. So why is the lesbian reality of the suffrage movement barely part of the #19thAmendment centennial conversation?
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Queer is cool, right? It’s 2020! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️etc., etc. So why is the lesbian reality of the suffrage movement barely part of the #19thAmendment centennial conversation?
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The movement for women’s liberation was run largely by unmarried women - some never married, some widowed.
Why? Because marriage was a prison for women, legally and socially. Unmarried women were exponentially freer to do the work of organizing and building a national movement.
Why? Because marriage was a prison for women, legally and socially. Unmarried women were exponentially freer to do the work of organizing and building a national movement.
Long-married leaders who raised multiple children - ElizCadyStanton, IdaBWells - are outliers in the suffrage pantheon. Most of the women who led the movement didn’t marry, didn’t have children, or were widowed early.
Does that mean they were lesbians? Well, yes - many of them.
Does that mean they were lesbians? Well, yes - many of them.
Finally, The #Five can Agree on one subject 🌹
Nothing like a Flower to grow Common Ground
So Uncommon in the #Twitterverse 🤦♀️
@FLOTUS deserves praise for her renovations of #RoseGarden
#Disability Access the Most praiseworthy.
Greg, don’t forget co-occurring #Suffrage100 🗳
Nothing like a Flower to grow Common Ground
So Uncommon in the #Twitterverse 🤦♀️
@FLOTUS deserves praise for her renovations of #RoseGarden
#Disability Access the Most praiseworthy.
Greg, don’t forget co-occurring #Suffrage100 🗳
@DanaPerino Respectfully, some of us are confined by disability or circumstance. @Twitter admittedly a cesspool of craziness.If you wade through enough,it can be a great communication tool.I visit with friends day and night. Sending Good thoughts,Sharing prayer at virtual Church.
Unfortunately, the Bias of the Swamp Meister @jack is like running into an alligator 🐊 or a water moccasin 🐍. I try to report Negative, Rude, Obscene, Disrespectful and Election Candidate Interference. Then I block all trolls. Unfortunately, Melania Trump is Dissed Constantly!
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All week we will be recognizing scholars of woman suffrage in honor of #19thAmendment , #suffrage100, and #WomensVote100 .
#twitterstorians @womnknowhistory
All week we will be recognizing scholars of woman suffrage in honor of #19thAmendment , #suffrage100, and #WomensVote100 .
#twitterstorians @womnknowhistory
Let's begin with two incredible podcasts that feature experts who may show up in this thread later😉. Retta and Rosario Dawson host "And Nothing Less" open.spotify.com/show/2QAZrj5tR… and Maggie Hart hosts "Waiting For Liberty," both about the struggle to vote. open.spotify.com/show/0EKsHIYT6…
H-SAWH subscriber and UKentucky prof Melanie B. Goan offers a fresh take on national and state-level suffrage efforts in Kentucky. Out in November @KentuckyPress! kentuckypress.com/9780813180175/…
Suffragists picketed the White House from 10am-6pm every day but Sundays. They continued - attacked by mobs, arrested constantly - for more than two years. But in their first months, the pickets were greeted warmly.🧵
Until January 1917, no one had ever done what they were doing. Frustrated at President Wilson’s refusal to support a federal suffrage amendment, they were the first Americans to stand outside the mansion in protest.
They walked 4-hour shifts, leaving only when relief arrived.
They walked 4-hour shifts, leaving only when relief arrived.
They continued in every kind of weather, though in heavy rain and snow shifts were 2 hours. To stay warm, the janitor from National Woman’s Party HQ brought wheelbarrows of hot bricks to stand on. In this picture from Jan. 26, they’re standing on boards to keep their feet drier.
Ida B. Wells could vote for President years before Alice Paul or Carrie Chapman Catt.
How?
Read on . . .
How?
Read on . . .
Changing state constitutions is hard. Who votes & who doesn’t is determined by each state; big changes almost always need constitutional amendment. Of course, this is why the state-by-state fight took so damn long. But in 1913, Illinois successfully used a different strategy.
Lucy Stone’s husband Henry Blackwell began pushing for “presidential suffrage” back in the 1880s. It was a clever idea: a way to get states to let women vote for President without the laborious process of amending their constitution. Here's how:
Obama’s 2d inaugural invoked a throughline “from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall.” Brett Kavanaugh has surely been itching to object since. In dissent yesterday he wrote: “Seneca Falls was not Stonewall.”
I know more about both of those things than he does. So, a primer.🧵
I know more about both of those things than he does. So, a primer.🧵
Things the women’s rights conference at Seneca Falls in 1848 & the Stonewall uprising of 1969 have in common:
* Both were led by radicals
* Both were led by radicals
* Both featured important Black leaders
PART II.
In 1865 Pres. Andrew Johnson awarded Dr. Mary Walker the Medal of Honor. Dr. Walker wore the medal pinned to her suit coat every day for the rest of her life. In 1917, her medal was rescinded along w/those of 911 men, for want of direct combat.
In 1865 Pres. Andrew Johnson awarded Dr. Mary Walker the Medal of Honor. Dr. Walker wore the medal pinned to her suit coat every day for the rest of her life. In 1917, her medal was rescinded along w/those of 911 men, for want of direct combat.
She wrote a letter of protest, and simply continued to wear the medal until her death in 1919.
Pres. Jimmy Carter reinstated the honor in 1977, thanks to feminist protest. Dr. Walker is still the only woman ever to receive it.
Pres. Jimmy Carter reinstated the honor in 1977, thanks to feminist protest. Dr. Walker is still the only woman ever to receive it.
Dr. Walker lived a long life, in Washington, Oswego & Albany. buff.ly/2FLCbau
She continued to practice medicine and activism. She campaigned for pensions for Civil War nurses and other women who had served, and never stopped urging women to give up corsets & petticoats.
She continued to practice medicine and activism. She campaigned for pensions for Civil War nurses and other women who had served, and never stopped urging women to give up corsets & petticoats.
Susan B Anthony voted 147 years ago today. For this she was arrested, and tried in federal court in Canandaigua NY the following June. She was represented by Henry Selden, a retired judge who laid out her case for why the 14th Amdt provided her the right to vote as a citizen. 1/
Judge Ward Hunt was a recently-appointed Supreme Court justice riding circuit in the Northern District of NY. He refused to allow Anthony to testify in her own defense, and directed the jury to find her guilty. To Hunt’s regret, he then asked if she had anything to say. 2/
Miss Anthony—I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government...
Judge—The Court cannot listen to a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner's counsel has already consumed 3 hours in presenting.
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Judge—The Court cannot listen to a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner's counsel has already consumed 3 hours in presenting.
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How did women win the right to vote? It's a big story. So big, no single exhibit can tell it. Follow #HerVote100 today to explore three exhibits in Washington, D.C. We'll share stories from @librarycongress @USNatArchives and @smithsoniannpg. #Suffrage100 #BecauseOfHerStory
For #HerVote100, we're marching with @librarycongress, @smithsoniannpg, @NMAAHC, @amhistorymuseum, @OurPresidents & @USNatArchives.
We're marking anniversaries related to the 19th Amendment and the path to women's suffrage (the right to vote). #Suffrage100 s.si.edu/2QNAyOf
We're marking anniversaries related to the 19th Amendment and the path to women's suffrage (the right to vote). #Suffrage100 s.si.edu/2QNAyOf
First stop: #ShallNotBeDenied at @librarycongress. Open through Sept. 2020, it has documents from personal collections of suffragists. loc.gov/suffrage #HerVote100
