the suff buffs
The 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.
“I am what you call a hooligan,” Emmeline Pankhurst announced to the standing-room only crowd of women packed into Carnegie Hall in October 1909. The American suffrage and labor activists in attendance cheered as Mrs. Pankhurst regaled the audience with stories about the fight to win the vote for British women.
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