Wild and Peaceful

On this Election Day, I would like to share with you an article from a 1915 issue of The Crisis (a monthly magazine published by The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). 

The article, Votes for Women, featured well reasoned arguments from respected Black Americans on why women should have the right to vote. 

Some key parts in the article include this quote from activist Mary B Talbert:

"It should not be necessary to struggle forever against popular prejudice, and with us as colored women, this struggle becomes two-fold, first because we are women, and second because we are colored women."

And, this quote from activist Mary Church Terrell 

"Even if I believed women should be denied the right of suffrage, wild horses could not drag such an admission from my pen or my lips, for this reason: precisely the same arguments used to prove that the ballot be withheld from women are advanced to prove that colored men should not be allowed to vote."

You can read the article online at Archive.org 

Illustrations of women wrestlers (circa late 1800s, early 1900s)

We all want to forget something, so we tell stories. It’s easier that way.

Before Project Runway’s ”Unconventional Challenge”, there was Weslaco Museum’s annual “Birthday Party” fashion show.  Women created outfits using local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. The event was organized by the Chamber of Commerce to showcase the food grown in the Rio Grande Valley. 

The fashion show debuted in 1929. The above photos range approximately between 1930s - early 1950s. 

Which contestant should go home? Which one will make Nina shake her head? Who will get the Tim Gunn save?

While travelling by rail through North Carolina and the Virginias, photographer Hugh Mangum took beautiful portraits of a variety of people. 

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