Articles related to "Suffragist"

The indomitable May Hutton became a leader in the Idaho and Washington women's suffrage movements

Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921) was an original: suffragist, journalist, radical believer in free love and birth control, and fan of spiritualism and Walt Whitman.

Woodhull was a leader of the women's rights movement and a valued suffragist. Her Vice Presidential running mate was Frederick Douglas, a freed slave and abolitionist.

The suffrage movement in Canada was established in 1878. Dr Emily Stowe launched an aggressive campaign seeking the same provincial and federal electoral rights as men.

A strong advocate of racial and gender equality, Ida Wells-Barnett used her education and journalism skills to raise awareness of civil rights.

Homeland presents a woman's perspective in both the North and South in this complex and satisfying story of what the war really meant to the people who lived it.

Why was "Venus at her Mirror" badly damaged by a suffragette, one of the so-called "wild women," during an attack at the National Gallery in London on March 10, 1914?

Louise Bryant was an early feminist, writer and activist from the early 1900's.

A brief history of the Suffragists fight for the right to vote. Lydia Taft, Abigail Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony

Esther Pohl Lovejoy's quest for Oregon women's rights in 1912 engaged men and women through the Everybody's Equal Suffrage League, mass advertising and public relations.

The Women's Rights Movement was instrumental in bringing rights to all women of America. What tends to be forgotten are the other women who fought in their own way.

Five-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs argued passionately for socialism and labor reform but proved to be a progressive champion for women's rights as well.

In the 1890s, Mine owners and union organizers fought for control of the Coeur d' Alene mines. Suffragist May Arkwright Hutton took up her pen in support of the union.

Built by CP Walker, the Walker Theatre was one of Canada's premier venues, staging magnificent symphony concerts, musical productions, operas and the newest live plays

The rights of women have improved significantly over the course of the 20th century. Here is a brief introduction to the suffrage movement.

The history of Mother's Day is traced from the mother of the Greek Gods, Rhea, to the founder of Modern Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis.

As the very first state of these United States, you can almost expect great things of the women from Delaware.

The golden spike is driven at the completion of railroad construction. In 1884, Julia "Pansy" Rule became the first woman to ever to perform this task.

Lola Greene Baldwin on April 1, 1908, became Portland, Oregon's first female police officer appointed by progressive Mayor Harry Lane.

Mary Wollstonecraft's writings helped influence the attitudes and philosophies of nineteenth-century women's rights activitsts despite her radical and scandalous life.

It all began in upstate New York in 1848 when five women organized the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.

With her husband in the "bullpen," the tenacious May Hutton moved to free him and secure rights for the miners who were being held

The Capitol Visitor Center in Washington D.C. will be displaying statues of Ephraim McDowell and 23 other Americans most Capitol Hill visitors won't even recognize.

With the help of her teacher, Helen Keller overcame the huge obstacles of both deafness and blindness to write and advocate for the benefit of others.

A new marriage and mounting tensions in the Silver Valley were primary elements in May Hutton's life.

Daughter of freeborn abolitionists, Mary Ann Shadd was the first woman to edit a newspaper, and an outspoken integration and equality advocate.

An illegitimate child few wanted, May Arkwright, would go on to be one of the most powerful women in the Pacific Northwest

The now wealthy May Hutton moved up the social ladder in Wallace, Idaho continuing her pursuit of equal rights and help for those less fortunate

Short biography of the talented and independent-minded daughter of England's Queen Victoria.

With the worsening conditions in the mines of Idaho came a violent upheaval that pit worker against owner

The Gunpowder Plot was foiled on November 5th 1605. It's been an excuse for riots, drunkenness, revenge and protest and anti-catholic bigotry ever since. And sparklers.

Like so many talented Americans, Elizabeth Oakes-Smith left this world without knowing the full impact of her life and work on society.

With an acute understanding of biology and the International Harvester fortune, McCormick was determined to provide women with a way to avoid unwanted pregnancies.

For nearly one hundred years, U.S. Presidents have struggled with the complicated politics of health care reform and universal health insurance.

Life and works of Anglo-Irish author Dame Rebecca West, best known for 'The Meaning of Treason' and 'The Fountain Overflows.'

Intrepid May Hutton who at twenty three was a widow set out for the silver mines of Idaho, leaving Ohio and her family for a new beginning.

The mine owners and the Governor of Idaho moved to identify and punish those involved in the explosions at the Bunker Hill mine in 1899

Elizabeth Gregory MacGill - Elsie - not only blazed a trail for women, she blasted open doors in engineering, aeronautical engineering, and business

The medical establishment wasn't ready for women, so Dr. Trout finished her training in the USA. She opened the Kingston Women's School of Medicine on October 2, 1883

The organization, war record, and short-lived history of the battalions of the Russian Women's Legion of Death that fought in World War One and the Russian Revolution.

The "Second Battle of Bunker Hill" in the Silver Valley of Idaho was a destructive turn of events that paralyzed the region

A small investment in yet another mine for May and Levi finally brought the wealth that May had been searching for since she left Ohio years earlier