Sentences with phrase «americans suffragists»

A grass - roots movement on social media has been urging women to #WearWhiteToVote in solidarity with the American suffragists, who adopted the color as one of their signatures and fought for what has now come (at least partly) to fruition: the first woman as a major party's candidate for president.

«Shoes on view range from designs to be worn in the privacy of a woman's home, shoes that American suffragists wore as they marched through city streets, «sexy» heels that reflected changing norms of female aesthetics, and professional shoes suitable for the increasing numbers of women in the workforce.

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ELIZABETHTOWN — A century after women secured the right to vote in New York State, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) said disaffected Americans should take a page from the suffragists» hard - fought playbook in fighting for issues important to them.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) said Americans dissatisfied with federal policy should take a page from the suffragist playbook.

Born a Slave, Frederick Douglass became an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, statemen and reformer.

Many Americans, like the suffragists and subsequent civil rights workers, fought long and hard to win the right to vote.

Bruinius's account, enlivened with many novelistic touches, is backed up by well - documented hard data, including the legislative records that show how 30 states implemented forced sterilization programs; and how many individuals and groups including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, Ivy League scholars, temperance advocates, suffragists, and liberal American churches and synagogues all got behind the campaign, inspired by the idea that America could be a place where moral purity and social harmony reigned.

In 1951 Alice Neel painted Death of Mother Bloor, which shows the public funeral in Harlem of Ella Reeve «Mother» Bloor, the revered American Communist organizer and suffragist, who died in the midst of McCarthy's witch hunts.