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fromTime Out New York
1 week agoA new NYC walking tour is telling the stories of the city's most badass women
On May 4, 1912, at the age of 16, Lee rode on horseback in an honor guard leading a massive parade up Fifth Avenue as part of the Women's Suffrage Movement. However, despite her activism, Lee was impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from obtaining citizenship.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks agoOp-Ed | Sojourner Truth didn't have to travel far to find injustice.She started right here | amNewYork
Sojourner Truth became the first Black woman to successfully sue a white man in America, winning her son's freedom from illegal slavery in 1828 Ulster County.
fromSmithsonian Magazine
1 month agoElizabeth Cady Stanton Is Known as the Woman Behind the Suffrage Movement. A New Book Reveals the Story Behind Her Tenacity
Born in 1815after the death of a much-desired baby boy, Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up with the painful knowledge that her father had longed for a son, and later recalled how, as a child of 11, she'd watched him grieve the death of another son, the only one of his five sons to survive infancy; young Elizabeth climbed onto his knee-only to hear him murmur, "Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy." Stanton later described the moment as decisive.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months agoToday in History: January 12, Joe Namath, New York Jets win Super Bowl III
On Jan. 12, 1969, the biggest upset in Super Bowl history occurred as the New York Jets of the American Football League defeated the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16-7 in Super Bowl III, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Also on this date: In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.
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fromsfist.com
4 months ago'Suffs' Keeps Marching on National Tour, Arriving Triumphantly In SF at a Time of Protest
A suffrage-era musical dramatizes early 20th-century activism, linking historical women's rights struggles to contemporary fights over civil rights, immigration, and LGBTQ protections.
fromUPI
4 months agoOn This Day, Oct. 23: Thousands march for women's suffrage in NYC - UPI.com
In 1707, the British Parliament met for the first time after the Treaty of Union dissolved both the Parliaments of England and Scotland and created a new Kingdom of Great Britain. The Parliament of Great Britain eventually became the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1915, an estimated 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote throughout the United States.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
9 months agoToday in History: June 4, the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square protests were violently crushed by Chinese troops in 1989.
The U.S. declared war for the first time against Britain in 1812.
The 19th Amendment was approved by Congress, advancing women's voting rights.
The Dunkirk evacuation demonstrated significant military strategy during WWII.
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