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New York State is the cradle of the womanʼs rights movement in the United States. The women of New York State have been in the forefront of the struggle for voting rights from the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, through the Civil War to the beginning of the New Deal era. New York’s women were the leaders, the strategists, the grassroots activists. When New York women won the vote in 1917, the addition of so many voters shifted the momentum of the national suffrage movement in favor of women. New York was the only Eastern state to win suffrage permanently before 1920, and it was the result of...
Read MoreSuffrage Centennial Parade: March 3, 2013, Washington, DC
The day before the 100th anniversary of the 1913 suffrage parade at the White House, there were moments when I thought I must be the only person who showed up. But this impression was dispelled the next morning as I worked through stages of relief, wonder, joy and a spiritual connection with the courageous spirits of all the original suffrage activists. Well over 1500 of us participated in a centennial parade honoring Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mathilda Joslyn Gage, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Inez Mulholland, and the tens of thousands of grassroots activists across the nation who...
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