- Considering that one century ago, Chicago was home to one of the nations most robust local womens suffrage movements, one has to wonder what pioneers like Jane Addams, Ida B. (Huffington Post)
- In 1911 women voted in some states--but not in Illinois. On this date 101 years ago, a group of female activists from Chicago chartered a train and traveled to Springfield to lobby for voting rights. At 9 a.m. (Chicago Public Radio)
- As Peter Quinn notes, within a generation they went from being the most rural people in Western Europe to being the most urban people in the U.S. (Daily Beast)
- In 1896 womens suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony Just ask Tania Castillo, a 19-year-old who works as a mechanic at the West Town Bikes, a shop in inner-city Chicago. (Women's eNews)
- As they landed in American cities, Chicago and New York among them interracial labor movement. Irish American women played important roles in labor and suffrage movements, bridging working-class immigrants and middle-class whites. (EurekAlert)
- At a seminar in Chicago in the late 1980s shortly before local elections And populations in tune with the rising progressive movement of that time. (DAILY KOS)
- The treatment of the Girl Scouts is an overt example of the current Republican war on women. This party is so anti-female civil rights, and universal suffrage. (Examiner)
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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