Suffrage – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:50:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Suffrage – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Fallen Woman Who Went to Wilson and Won the Vote https://brewminate.com/the-fallen-woman-who-went-to-wilson-and-won-the-vote/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:03:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=157238 Helen Hamilton Gardener turned President Wilson into a supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment, ensuring its passage in Congress.

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]]> The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession https://brewminate.com/the-1913-woman-suffrage-procession/ Thu, 06 May 2021 18:26:36 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=153371 This was the generation of suffragists who challenged society’s expectations of what it meant to be a woman.

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]]> The Nudge and Tie Breaker That Took Women’s Suffrage from Nay to Yea in 1920 https://brewminate.com/the-nudge-and-tie-breaker-that-took-womens-suffrage-from-nay-to-yea-in-1920/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:55:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=133966 The final step toward ratification hinged on the decision of one young man in Tennessee: State Rep. Harry

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]]> Suffragists and Hunger Strikes in the Early 20th Century https://brewminate.com/suffragists-and-hunger-strikes-in-the-early-20th-century/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:55:22 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=134531 How suffragists first used hunger strikes as a form of resistance and protest. Introduction Asylum seekers held in

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]]> Suffragist Village: Leaders in the Ballot for Women’s Right to Vote in the United States https://brewminate.com/suffragist-village-leaders-in-the-ballot-for-womens-right-to-vote-in-the-united-states/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:21:36 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=133726 After years of struggle, on Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the final state needed to ratify the 19th

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]]> 19 Facts about the 19th Amendment https://brewminate.com/19-facts-about-the-19th-amendment/ Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:05:44 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=127884 Women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how. The

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]]> How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect https://brewminate.com/how-black-suffragists-fought-for-the-right-to-vote-and-a-modicum-of-respect/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:14:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=122382 Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and urged

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]]> Winning the Vote: A Divided Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment https://brewminate.com/winning-the-vote-a-divided-movement-and-the-nineteenth-amendment/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:30:24 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=122371 Roughly fifty years after a handful of suffragists conceived the idea, it became a hard-fought reality. Introduction In

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]]> A Tale of Two Suffragists: Hazel Hunkins and Maud Wood Park https://brewminate.com/a-tale-of-two-suffragists-hazel-hunkins-and-maud-wood-park/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:26:23 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=95487 Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the right

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]]> The Forgotten Suffragists https://brewminate.com/the-forgotten-suffragists/ Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:38:15 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=101119 How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not. In

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