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Interview: Joan Marie Johnson on the Monied Women Who Funded Suffrage Activism
Joan Marie Johnson, "Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967," University of North Carolina Press, October 2017.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book-Non-Fiction
In Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967, historian Joan Marie Johnson dives deep into the world of wealthy women and the activist causes that benefited from their money. […] Read More
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Gotham Center for New York City History: Mrs. Frank Leslie’s Million Dollar Gift to Women’s Suffrage by Joan Marie Johnson
Joan Marie Johnson. "New Yorker Mrs. Frank Leslie's Million Dollar Gift to Women's Suffrage." Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City. November 14, 2017.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Non-Fiction, Web-based
In this Gotham Center-published excerpt, Joan Marie Johnson prints a portion of her book on the monied women who funded suffrage activism. The excerpt looks at Mrs. Frank Leslie, who was […] Read More
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Interview: Johanna Neuman on the “Gilded Suffragists”
Johanna Neuman, "Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote," NYU Press, September 2017.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book-Non-Fiction
Johanna Neuman‘s new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, tells the fascinating story of how the elite women of New York City took up […] Read More
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How Suffragists Reacted to the Titanic Disaster
James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. Print Culture in a Diverse America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. (pp. 203-222).
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter
The book Print Culture in a Diverse America is a collection of essays on “books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups.” In chapter nine, Steven Biel writes […] Read More
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News report: “Suffrage Proclamation Signed Privately; Women Absent and Movie Men Eliminated”
Constance Drexel. "Suffrage Proclamation Signed Privately; Women Absent and Movie Men Eliminated." Washington Herald, August 27, 1920, p.1. (Library of Congress Archives).
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Newspapers
This newspaper clipping from The Washington Herald explains how the Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby, signed the suffrage proclamation privately on August 26, 1920 – controversially, without the presence of members of […] Read More
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Activism Then and Now: the 1913 Suffrage Parade and the 2017 Women’s March
Mary Bowerman. "This isn’t the first time thousands of women have taken to the streets in D.C." USA Today, January 21, 2017.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Newspapers, Pageants and Parades, Web-based
In this article for USA Today, journalist Mary Bowerman uses the Women’s March—the feminist protest held in Washington, DC and other cities the day after Donald Trump’s January 20, 2017 […] Read More