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.
Born January 11, 1885, in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Paul was the daughter of strict Quakers, raised in a home where music was forbidden. It remains a mystery how such a sheltered young woman could burst so suddenly into the wider world, driven by a fierce craving to transform society.
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