#womensuffrage

Travis also draws attention to the fact that “Predenderette” and suffragette are very similar words. Perhaps showing that Nesbit was mocking the women’s suffrage movement. It is interesting how it seems that Nesbit is both supporting and tearing down the women’s movement. Maybe she disagreed with certain aspects but agreed with the overall message?

This photo was taken in the county courthouse on June 27, 1920. The Mobile women in the image were registering to vote for the first time. About two thousand showed up that first registration day. Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

Women Suffrage has been an issue for over 150 years. Women have not only struggled with being misrepresented, mistreated, harmed, and overall - unable to have rights to their own lives and bodies. The Night Of Terror has been one of the most horrific cases in History based upon women suffrage. However, these women have fought for where we are today, and it's our turn as women, to keep pushing to end women suffrage.

I voted yesterday, first time I ever voted actually! I feel pretty good! Happy 100th anniversary of women having a voice in our political leaders! Get out there and vote, ladies! #vote2020 #vote #womensuffrage #100yearsofwomenvoting #authorlife #writerslife #readerslife #writeralexapostol https://www.instagram.com/p/CGH8adGgPu3/?igshid=18ha7wkeae4pq

October 2- Hispanic/ Latino Heritage month we honor MUNA LEE de MUÑOZ was not Latina by birth but did so much for women’s suffrage in Puerto Rico her husband’s homeland and brought awareness to Pan Americana and feminism as writer and activist. Born in Mississippi and living most of her life in Puerto Rico where she died. She became an advocate for and translator of Latin American literature, making major contributions to the modern Pan-American literary tradition.She wrote about translating from Spanish, that the poetry "is only partially translatable — that is, so much of its beauty depends upon the intricately braided jet and silver of its cadences that a great deal is necessarily lost by translation into a less liquid tongue Political activism Edit Lee became involved in feminist activism, making important contributions to the modern women's movement, in particular the struggle for equal rights. She was a founder of the Inter-American Commission of Women, for which she worked in Washington, DC, in the summers of 1928 and 1929.She helped represent Puerto Rico and joined with women of Latin America at the Sixth Pan American Congress in 1928 in Havana.They advocated for women's equal rights and suffrage (the latter passed in Puerto Rico in 1929, restricted to literate women, and then universal suffrage was passed in 1935. . . . #hispanicheritagemonth #latinoheritagemonth #socialactivism #womenactivists #womensuffrage #artbysfhonn #artwork #latinaillustrator #latinaartist #portrait #portraitart (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF1CxClnqOn/?igshid=tfp6yonhl65s

September 20 today’s National Hispanic/ Latino Heritage month - EVA PERON:After her husband Became the President of Argentina in 1946 and she the First Lady of Argentina she became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Women's Peronist Party. She also ran for President Fun fact: She inspired the musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber.Madonna pal eyed her in adaptation on the silver screen opposite Antonio Banderas. . . . #evaperon #womensuffrage #latinahistory #laborrights #history #historialfigure #illustrator #ilustracao #artbysfhonn #artist #ilustraciones #artist #artwork #argentina #hispanicheritagemonth #latinoheritagemonth . (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXdpBMnRnd/?igshid=19bi1lkyuyqtl

I finished my suffragist outfit! (Well, except for a sash, but I am not sure if I have fabric for it in my stash...) 💜🤍💛 #suffragettefashion #womensuffrage #historicalcostuming #1910sfashion #linendress @xixshallnotbedenied (Can you see the white-on-white piping and piecing in the skirt that I worked so hard on? No? How about the drawn-thread work on the bodice? Sighhh) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Pe3kYAJ9J/?igshid=d3c80wmvkadl

Can’t wait to receive my copy! My new book cover “The Women’s Suffrage Movement”. Sharing a few pictures via the Penguin Classic Twitter account. Thank you to the Penguin team and AD/Designer: Brianna Harden! Thank you: Paul Buckley! . . . . . . #penguinclassics #gloriasteinem #womensuffrage #illustratedcover #women #books #bookcover #hannabarczyk #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu8o-LQFLjS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jc3wcfv2py1o