by Elaine Luther | Aug 24, 2019 | Activists
We’ve just been to Seneca Falls, New York, the site of the first women’s rights convention, so suffragists were very much still on my mind when this charming post came across my computer today. Hop over to Bean and Noodle blog to read about what happened...
by Elaine Luther | Jul 22, 2019 | Activists
Most of us know at least some of the lines from the poem that’s inscribed on the State of Liberty in New York, New York. But not everyone knows the name of the poet. It’s Emma Lazarus, who was born on this day, July 22, in 1849. Another fact I learned is...
by Elaine Luther | Jul 22, 2019 | Activists
Can you imagine a time when young women would be hired to work in a factory, painting watch faces with radioactive paint? It happened, in New Jersey and Illinois and the young women whose lives were changed forever are known as the Radium Girls. Radium You might...
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