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9 Oct, 5 tweets, 5 min read
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

Free! Registration at bottom.

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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.
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.
Thursday @ 1:30 ET

Don’t miss @RabiaBelt’s important work on the uses and abuses of disability in the suffrage movement and

@KaraWSwanson on what looks like a really interesting discussion of women inventors, patents, and suffrage.

@ProfPAustin will comment!
Friday @ 1:30 ET

Can’t wait to hear what @elizabethdkatz found about the right to hold public office.

Plus @AdamHDomby on how the 'lost cause’ connects 15th & 19th Amdts.

Then @aklange1 closes out.

Wow!

Register today! masshist.org/conferences

#19thAmendment #15thAmendment

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9 Oct
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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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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.
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.
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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.🧵 Sepia photograph of fourteen suffragists in overcoats on pic
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 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. Sepia photograph of three National Woman's Party picketers f
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Ida B. Wells could vote for President years before Alice Paul or Carrie Chapman Catt.

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16 Jun
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.”

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* Both were led by radicals Sepia portrait of 19th century woman Lucretia Mott in a bonn
* Both featured important Black leaders
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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.
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.
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.
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