"Women are the equals of men before the law, and are equal in all their rights."
#OnThisDay, 10 May 1872, Victoria Woodhull was nominated to run for US president by the Equal Rights Party. Her nomination was ratified on June 6, 1872, making her the first woman candidate.
Woodhall had co-founded, with her sister, both a Wall Street brokerage and a newspaper. She was also an anti-abortionist and eugenics supporter.
#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1913, suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and announces she will go on hunger strike.
#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1913, thousands of women march through Washington DC in the Suffrage Parade. They are led by Inez Milholland, a lawyer, on a white horse.
Facebook apparently won't approve any ads for this board game. I have nothing to do with the game so this is not an ad. I'm just posting this here to raise awareness.
Also Facebook can bite me.
@DZGrizzle just watched the gameplay video for this: yes looks like a good game.
Facebook is definitely off the rails for messing with the crowdfunding.
#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picket of the US White House, demanding votes for women. They protested six days a week until the vote was granted in 1919.
Many were arrested. Some were sent to Occoquan Workhouse where one night in 1917 the governor ordered them to be assaulted by the guards. Reports of the "Night of Terror" increased sympathy for the cause.
#OnThisDay, 19 Sept 1893, the Electoral Act is signed into Aotearoa (New Zealand) law. All women over 21 who were 'British subjects', including Māori women, gain the right to vote.
#OnThisDay, 28 Aug 1917, ten of the Silent Sentinels are arrested outside the US White House.
The sentinels were campaigning for women's suffrage, and picketed the White House in silence for two and a half years. Many were assaulted, arrested or jailed during their protest.
#OnThisDay, August 26, in 1920, the 19th Amendment made laws reserving the ballot for men unconstitutional. Some American women were able to vote—due to voter suppression, Black women weren’t able to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (depicted in Iron Jawed Angels, 2004)
#OnThisDay, 28 July 1893, Kate Sheppard's “monster petition”, signed by over 25,000 women and calling for the vote, is presented to the New Zealand (Aotearoa) parliament.
#OnThisDay, 2 Jul 1928, the UK's Representation of the People Act comes into effect, finally giving women equal voting rights to men. It increases the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million.
#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1915, 12,000 people march in Copenhagen to celebrate Denmark's new Constitution giving women the right to vote and stand for election.