Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, in what is now the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum lovingly restored and owned by Carol Crossed. After the family moved to Rochester, New York, they became active in the abolitionist movement, often welcoming Frederick Douglass and William Wilberforce. While Douglass became most […]
The assertion that suffragists do not care for children and prefer notoriety to the joys of maternity is so fully contradicted by the lives of the women who are trying to make the world a safer place for both sons and daughters, that no defense is needed. Having spent my own life from fifteen to
Jane Addams (1860-1935) exemplified activism dedicated to creating holistic solutions to the challenges faced by real people. Inspired in part by the Toynbee Hall settlement house in London’s East End, where university graduates lived in community with working class and poor people, Jane Addams and Ellen Starr founded their own settlement house on Chicago’s West
February 23, 2023 Our kids need help… After two years of lockdowns and other pandemic-related measures, many children are still falling behind in school. In the city of Baltimore, 23 schools have zero students proficient in math. In the state of Illinois, it’s 53 — and 30 have no students proficient in reading. Study after study shows that the United States
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