On to Albany!
Founding Feminists: December 12, 1932
If you’ve been thinking that women seem to be losing jobs even faster than men since the current Depression began and that women who are still employed are being exploited far more than before, there is now solid evidence to back up that impression.
Founding Feminists: December 11, 1921
The campaign for a 20th Amendment, to assure equal rights for women, is quickly taking shape!
Founding Feminists: December 10, 1869
For the first time since 1807, when the New Jersey Legislature revoked the right of that State’s unmarried, property-owning women to vote, there is now a part of the United States where a woman – in this case regardless of her marital or economic status – can now legally cast a ballot: The Territory of Wyoming!
Founding Feminists: December 9, 1909
American suffragist Alice Paul has been freed from London’s Holloway Prison!
Founding Feminists: December 6, 1913
After fifty-five National American Woman Suffrage Association convention delegates vowed to stay in Washington, D.C., all Winter if that was what needed to be done in order to meet with President Wilson, he has finally agreed to receive a N.A.W.S.A. deputation.
Founding Feminists: December 5, 1913
“We are going to see President Wilson if it takes all Winter.”
Founding Feminists: December 4, 1913
“If the Constitution stands in our way, let’s tear it up and make a new one!”
Founding Feminists: December 3, 1913
Many prominent and articulate suffragists went to Capitol Hill at 10:30 to testify before the House Rules Committee in favor of establishing a Standing Committee on Woman Suffrage in the House.
Founding Feminists: December 2, 1913
The treatment of women by the criminal justice system was denounced today by Louise De Koven Bowen.
Founding Feminists: November 26, 1917
Though Alice Paul has refused food since November 5th, and been force-fed three times a day since the 8th, it appears to be the Wilson Administration that’s in a rapidly weakening condition and eager to find a compromise.
Founding Feminists: November 25, 1917
A secret diary kept by Elizabeth McShane in Occoquan has also come into the hands of the National Woman’s Party.
Founding Feminists: November 22, 1917
Despite the fact that Lucy Burns and Dora Lewis, leaders of the week-old hunger strike at Occoquan, have been transferred to D.C.’s District Jail, the remaining strikers remain as committed as ever.
Founding Feminists: November 21, 1917
The number of suffragists being subjected to the ordeal of force-feeding has suddenly increased from two to five.
Founding Feminists: November 20, 1917
No word from – or about – the suffragists being held in Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse and D.C.’s District Jail today.
Founding Feminists: November 19, 1917
Sixteen of the suffragists imprisoned in Occoquan Workhouse are continuing the hunger strike they began upon arrival on the evening of the 14th.
Founding Feminists: November 15, 1917
Hunger strike!
Founding Feminists: November 13, 1917
Today the “Silent Sentinels” who are picketing President Wilson over his failure to support nationwide woman suffrage battled a hostile mob, then were arrested by police – who failed to arrest any of their attackers.
Founding Feminists: November 12, 1917
It’s not easy to shock the suffragists who have been picketing President Wilson over his refusal to support or work for the Susan B. Anthony (nationwide woman suffrage) Amendment, but today they were truly caught by surprise.
Founding Feminists: November 11, 1917
Where did the 41 suffragists arrested yesterday while trying to picket along the White House fence spend part of what may be their last day of freedom before their trials tomorrow? Inside the walls of the District of Columbia Jail.