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W.E.B.DuBois grew up in Great Barrington, Mass. and kept fond ties to the town all his life. His family periodically took refuge there when white supremacist violence made Atlanta too
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Renounce: To give up, to resign, to surrender; esp. to give up in a complete and formal manner. Laura Clay ran the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Assoc. from its founding in
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So many talented African-American women became teachers when outlets for intellectual and managerial skill were few.Sarah Smith Garnet began teaching when she was 14 years old, and in 1863 she
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Did you know that the first American woman to speak for equal rights in public, in front of men, was a Black woman? And that she made sure her speeches
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Inez Milholland graduated from @Vassar in 1909.She applied to law school, but @Harvard_Law @ColumbiaLaw @UniofOxford @Cambridge_Uni refused her. She was accepted @nyulaw, which began admitting women in 1890. (By the
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Addie Hunton was no naïf, but the shameless racism she saw in her war service shocked her. She spent 1918-19 as one of a handful of African American women deployed
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Meet a suffragist who began her career canvassing Kansas in 1867 -- and ended it in 1918 burning Woodrow Wilson’s speeches by the White House.In today’s episode of Suffrage Powerhouses
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Is citizenship earned or inherent? Did women need to prove they _deserved_ the vote?Once the US entered WWI, women were eager to be of service--especially women with something to prove.
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