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.
My childhood was full of discussions about social issues, racial struggles, and the historical realities of oppression and inequality. The adults in my world were educated and politically astute and I always knew that Ida B. Wells was my father’s grandmother, my great-grandmother.
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