Journal 12/18

-        Rheta Childe Dorr joined the National Woman Suffrage Association and attended the University of Nebraska. She worked in the post office and wrote a series of articles for New York newspapers showing the conditions suffered by working girls in sweatshops to get firsthand information about women’s trades. She was the first editor of The Suffragist in 1914 and held press conferences to confront President Wilson with awkward questions about suffrage.

-        Susan B. Anthony was many things, a Quaker, teacher, an abolition organizer, as well as a women’s rights leader. She published The Revolution in 1868 and lectured for 6 years. She was the head of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892-1900, and was the champion of the amendment called “The Invincible.” She was active in state campaigns in Kansas to California and spoke across the country for 30 years. She voted in the 1872 election and was arrested. She also led the Centennial protest in 1876.

-        Mary Ann Shadd Cary moved to Canada after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1951 and helped black refugees. She edited the weekly anti-slavery newspaper the Provincial Freeman. She was a teacher in Washington D.C., a grammar school principal, and spoke at National Woman Suffrage Association convention in 1878. At the age of 60 she received a law degree from Howard University.

-        Lillie Blake wrote articles, stories, and novels. She was a graceful lecturer and a popular suffrage convention speaker. She was active in New York associations and campaigns from 1879 to 1900. She was against Carrie Catt for head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900 and organized the National Legislative League to correct legal abuses.