After seven consecutive days of walking, and approximately 116 of the 225 miles from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C. behind them, the suffrage hikers are spending this eighth day in Wilmington, Delaware, “getting new feet” as they put it.
Founding Feminists: February 18, 1913
Day Seven of the suffrage hike was very successful in a number of ways, not the least of which was passing the midpoint in the long trek from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C.
Founding Feminists: February 14, 1913
“A small band of votes-for-women pilgrims from the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Ohio earnestly request of you an audience for not more than two minutes in Washington as soon after your arrival as possible. They desire to present a message to you.”
Bread and Roses: 100 Hundred Years Later
One hundred years ago, in the dead of a New England winter, the great Bread and Roses Strike of textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts began.
Founding Feminists: February 13, 1913
This was an eventful, but exhausting, 27-mile second day of the Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C., suffrage hike by “General” Rosalie Jones and her “Army of the Hudson.”
Founding Feminists: February 11, 1937
Amelia Earhart, who became the first woman – and only the second person – to fly solo across the North Atlantic five years ago, announced plans today for a far more ambitious adventure.
Founding Feminists: February 6, 1910
” …unless this cause means freedom and equal rights to all women, of every race, of every creed, rich or poor, its doctrines are worthless, and it must fail in its achievements.”
Founding Feminists: February 5, 1917
Margaret Sanger is in Brooklyn’s Raymond Street Jail tonight, beginning a 30-day sentence for the “crime” of giving out birth control information.
Founding Feminists: February 4, 1919
With just six days left until a crucial vote in the Senate, William Jennings Bryan spent today at the Capitol lobbying hard for the one more vote suffrage supporters still need for final Congressional approval of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.
Founding Feminists: February 3, 1919
Sixty-three of the sixty-four votes needed for final Congressional passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment have now been pledged!
Founding Feminists: January 31, 1917
Ethel Byrne’s prison ordeal for the “crime” of dispensing information about birth control may soon be nearing an end – and have done enormous good.
Founding Feminists: January 30, 1917
Imprisoned birth control advocate Ethel Byrne’s force-feedings continue, as do nationwide protests over her conviction and treatment.
Founding Feminists: January 29, 1917
Three thousand people cheered Margaret Sanger’s speech earlier tonight at Carnegie Hall, as she called for the repeal or overturning of Section 1142 of the New York State Penal Code and all similar statutes.
Founding Feminists: January 28, 1917
A regular schedule of force-feedings is being drawn up by Workhouse authorities for Ethel Byrne, now serving a 30-day sentence for giving out information on contraception last October at the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn.
Founding Feminists: January 27, 1917
Force-feeding of birth control advocate Ethel Byrne at the Workhouse on Blackwell’s Island has begun, and will continue on a three-times-per-day basis.
Founding Feminists: January 24, 1972
Gloria Steinem got a standing ovation today at the National Press Club, and the fact that she was applauded by an audience in which women slightly outnumbered men was proof of how much things can change when feminists are determined to change them.
Founding Feminists: January 23, 1917
Ethel Byrne, imprisoned birth control advocate, is fully resisting jailhouse authorities today.
Founding Feminists: January 22, 1973
A stunning and landmark victory today in the 152-year battle over abortion rights in the United States.
Founding Feminists: January 21, 1972
Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) is in town to talk about her Presidential campaign, which has been running informally since July, but will be officially launched four days from now. Gloria Steinem is here as well, generating publicity for the first stand-alone issue of “Ms.” magazine.
Founding Feminists: January 17, 1916
Margaret Sanger is going on trial tomorrow. But she’s not backing down.