The Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument in Washington, D.C. was once the headquarters building for the National Woman’s Party. There women — many young, many militant — planned strategy, wrote and produced the party’s newspaper, The Suffragist, and returned for rest after serving time in jail. On display for visitors these days are many markers of the […]
Archives for March 2018
When Women Went to Jail for the Right to Vote — in America
It is not well known but some American women went to jail for their right to vote. In a prison that had been discarded ten years earlier as “unfit to hold a human being,” they were subjected to insect-infected food, sunless cells and in some cases brutal attack. A few went on hunger strikes and […]
Young Women Leading Revolutions? Ask 20-Something Women’s Suffrage Activist Alice Paul
A meme making its way around the Internet speaks volumes to the marvel that young students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — not yet eligible to vote — are leading a revolution in the politics of guns. Note this list contains no women — not even Betsy Ross, who at 24, as a trained […]