As Feminists for Life, we have long celebrated the legacies of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. You may know from FFL’s publications and social media that Anthony welcomed Douglass into her home in Rochester, New York. But the friends separated for a time when Douglass determined that black men should get the vote before […]
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Mrs. America takes viewers on a stroll through the political journey of the Equal Rights Amendment. Particularly for those of us who didn’t experience the ’70s and early ’80s firsthand or were too young to remember it, it is a lush, nostalgic walk that manages to invite both sides of this hotbed debate to come
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Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886-1916) was the privileged daughter of a New York Tribune writer and salesman. Boissevain’s parents supported her feminist agitations, but her elders at Vassar College were less enthused. Suspended from Vassar and denied entrance to several Ivy League schools, Boissevain finally graduated from NY University Law School in 1912. As a freshman
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June 19, 1865 marked the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, the final and most geographically remote of the former Confederate states to surrender and free its slaves. Frederick Douglass, who was himself born into slavery and fled bondage, was a fierce abolitionist, as well as a suffragist, allying with Susan B. Anthony and
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