Sentences with word «suffragist»

Gillian Wearing unveiled her statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett for London's Parliament Square

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand traces parallels between suffragist movement, current activism in visit to Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown

A statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett by Turner Prize - winning artist Gillian Wearing OBE has been unveiled in Parliament Square in a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister and the Mayor of London today.

When 14 - year - old Mable Riley leaves home for Ontario in 1901 to assist her schoolmistress, she prays for adventure; she finds it when she meets a radical suffragist in the conservative farm town.

Emmeline founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903 in response to the perceived failure of moderate negotiation by suffragists led by Millicent Fawcett to gain votes for women.

A GOP candidate running against Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Sunday sharply criticized the New York Democrat.

At 1 p.m., LG Kathy Hochul honors the legacy of New York Suffragists at Carrying the Torch: Girl Scouts Convention, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall St., Seneca Falls.

«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.

In words and photos, the authors tell the story of an ardent suffragist, civil rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who founded one of the first settlement houses and gained international recognition for her work.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tried on a sash similar to those worn by suffragists as they fought for the right to vote in New York State.

Women suffragists made their gains based on fundamental Enlightenment principles.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that, in honor of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in New York, the State will dedicate and build two statues in commemoration of suffragists Sojourner Truth and Rosalie Gardiner Jones.

Gillibrand, who has spent the week in the Adirondack Park, received a whirlwind tour of the facility's «Adirondack Suffragists: 100 Years of Votes for Women» exhibit curated by Margaret Bartley and Gerald Zahavi, both of Elizabethtown.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand traces parallels between suffragist movement, current activism in visit to Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown more

Gillian Wearing will become the first woman to create a statue for Parliament Square, with suffragist Millicent Fawcett honoured

Skirting the plinth are 52 etched tiles carrying the names, and in all but one instance the photographs, of 55 leading suffragists, and their more militant sister suffragettes.

Gillian Wearing's statue of first female suffragist Millicent Fawcett unveiled in Parliament square, 25 April, 2018.

The Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester — home of the famous suffragist — will offer discounts, a selfie booth and other ways to celebrate the nation's first opportunity to vote for a woman for president.

Abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone and activist Henry Blackwell created a contract when they wed in 1855, mostly in protest of coverture, in which women lost their legal existence to their husband once they married.

At Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, the grave sites of four other prominent suffragists could use some «I Voted» stickers, like those dotting Susan B. Anthony's grave, David Ison, the cemetery's executive director, said.

The lawmaker said suffragists planted the seeds for modern - day political activism, including marching, protests and the use of eye - catching visuals and props — like white clothes and cups, for instance.

The Women's Suffragist Centennial Commission Act will provide a funding stream for educational programming at local museums.

I am proud and honored to work with other inspiring women as we honor and build on the legacy of these brave suffragists.»

[48] Many suffragists reacted angrily; the WSPU accused the WLL, and Bondfield in particular, of treachery.

Museum archivist Laura Brown offers a peek behind - the - scenes at the Museum from 1912 to 1914, when suffragists were fighting for the vote.

Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, this title focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free - verse narratives.

Lamia and Oduye flawlessly dramatize the lives of pioneering abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Grimké and her slave, Handful, in this graphic, luminous, and deeply affecting historical novel.

Suffragists argued that only the vote could free women from male tyranny.

Wearing's cast bronze design, which depicts Fawcett holding a sign with a quotation from a 1913 speech she gave after the death of suffragist Emily Wilding Davison, was granted conditional approval by Westminster city council this morning.

Sadly this contrasts with the neglect of her portrait, painted by fellow suffragist and pioneering artist Annie Swynnerton.

Sunday's program features films about the Riot Grrrl movement and early suffragist Inez Milholland, as well as a lecture on witchcraft by Amanda Yates Garcia, the Oracle of Los Angeles.

Gillian Wearing's monument to the British suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett — the first statue of a woman to be erected on Parliament Square in London, and also the first to be designed by a female artist — marks a century since the partial suffrage granted women by the 1918 Representation of the People Act.

While the quotation comes from Fawcett's response to the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, knocked down by the King's horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913, its position on a banner echoes the peaceful mottos borne aloft by suffragist groups on their marches.

Jane Robinson's book Hearts and Minds (2018), a history of the Great Pilgrimage, describes suffragists being bombarded with rotten potatoes and eggs, maggot - riddled dead rats, stones and pieces of broken brick.

Main image: The English suffragist and educational reformer Dame Millicent Fawcett, (1847 — 1929), addressing a meeting in Hyde Park in 1913 as president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, an office she held from 1897 to 1919.

A new project hopes to add sculptures of suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to the public art of Central Park.

Artist Gillian Wearing with a model of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett.

«You can't imagine their unbelievable dedication and never giving up,» Gillibrand said at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown on Thursday, where she toured an exhibit detailing the state's suffragist movement.

The sticker features «General» Rosalie Jones, a New York Suffragist and organizer who led a 150 - mile hike from NYC to Albany in December of 1912 to present a petition to then Governor - Elect Sulzer.

Photos, videos, text and maps come together in a seven - part series that sheds light on the mainstream women's movement and the contributions of African Americans suffragists (like Sarah Smith Garney, New York's first female African American public school principal), labor activists and young insurgents.

His trial not only split the country, it split apart his family, causing a particularly bitter rift between his sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, an ardent suffragist.

Find creative writing activities about the immigrant experience, historical time lines of the civil rights movement, slideshows of famous women suffragists, art activities for celebrating community helpers, lesson plans for learning more about wars and the soldiers who fight them, and much more.

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Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE (D - N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP for its «near silence» on sexual misconduct allegations against former Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chairman Steve Wynn.

The governor and LG Kathy Hochul today announced that, in honor of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in New York, the state will dedicate and build two statues in commemoration of suffragists Sojourner Truth and Rosalie Gardiner Jones.

The Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown has opened a new exhibit, «Adirondack Suffragists: 100 Years of Votes for Women.»