On the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was in a Washington, D.C. drill rehearsal hall with sixty-four other Illinois suffragists. She was there representing the Alpha Suffrage Club…
Read MoreThe women’s suffrage movement is filled with extraordinary, dramatic, inspiring, complex, and too-little-known stories. Throughout 2020, the WSCC created a collection of those stories through our blog series of not-so-average herstory, The Suff Buffs. And now, these articles can be enjoyed as a collected anthology, titled On Their Shoulders: The Radical Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote, published for free on our website.
On the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was in a Washington, D.C. drill rehearsal hall with sixty-four other Illinois suffragists. She was there representing the Alpha Suffrage Club…
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