Jul 6, 2023 | This Month in Suffrage History, Women's History
July was the month the world of women began to change forever. It is hard to believe that for centuries before July of 1848, women had been, with rare exception, treated as the property of the men in their lives, incapable of serious thinking, unworthy of...
Jun 22, 2023 | Women's History
Seventy-one years after the Seneca Falls Convention, on May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives finally approved the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. The Senate followed on June 4, 1919. Congress had finally approved the 19th Amendment and sent it to the states,...
May 1, 2023 | This Month in Suffrage History
May 7th is the birthday of Lizzie Crozier French—a woman of remarkable courage and energy. Born as Margaret Elizabeth Crozier in 1851, Lizzie was the 5th child of 9, and the second daughter of John Hervey Crozier and Mary Williams Crozier. She was only 10 when the...
Apr 25, 2023 | This Month in Suffrage History
Lucretia Coffin was born on 3 Jan 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was raised as a devoted Quaker and became an early feminist activist, abolitionist, and powerful orator. She eventually met and married the supportive James Mott, also a Quaker and devoted...