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Even after women won the right to vote, Alice Paul—a women's rights activist and founder of the National Woman's Party—realized the U.S. still had a long way to go before it reached true equality. Shefought for the Equal Rights Amendment, which, if added to the Constitution, would ...
Lee did all of this because women’s suffrage in America embodied the egalitarian ideals she believed in. She also hoped it would give rights to—and help to lift up—a part of her own community: Chinese Americans born in the U.S. “While it was completely selfless for her to do this...
Xiao is known for eye-catching protests, and three of her contest participants were among five women's rights activists whose detentions in March received worldwide attention. In 2013, she shaved her head to protest the way women have to get higher scores than men to be admitted to some un...
This entry was posted in Bible, Civil Rights, Colonialism, Economic Justice, High Holidays, Politics, Racism, Religion, Sermons, Tzedek Chicago, Women's Issues, Yom Kippur on September 17, 2021. The People’s Trial of Donald Trump: My Testimony Here, below, is my testimony from “The ...
The organizers of The Women’s March, which began as a global protest in 2017 following the presidential inauguration, took notice of The Outrage’s overnight success and reached out. Together, they planned a pop-up to use as a vehicle for fundraising. It was an overwhelming success, Rebecca...
Nikki M. James plays suffragist, journalist, educator and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells. She said it's an honor to play the icon. "Using your legal system, using your right to protest, using your voice, using her access to journalism and getting the story out," James said. ...
bluff, replying via telegram, “We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women.” Congress relented and Wyoming became a state in 1890, with women’s right to vote intact. True to its past, Wyoming’s state motto today is simply, “Equal Rights...
Nikki M. James plays suffragist, journalist, educator and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells. She said it's an honor to play the icon. "Using your legal system, using your right to protest, using your voice, using her access to journalism and getting the story out," James said. ...
Thousands of people walk down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. during a march for women's rights in January 2017. More than 1 million people participated in the Women's March nationwide, making it the largest single-day protest in American history. ...