There’s a direct source online for the fabulous gift guide for suffrage gifts and it’s not too late to be checking gifts off your list.

Bob Cooney and the National Women’s History Alliance are carrying the torch.

Link to the gift guide directly.

Celebrating 100 years since the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution is something to be thankful for! No social movement is without its challenges and contradictions.

A HOLIDAY MESSAGE FROM MARGUERITE KEARNS

“Learning about the women’s suffrage movement hasn’t without its challenges. For me in my writing, this has involved what to include in my writing and what to leave out for reasons of space, reasonable privacy concerns, as well as the compromises and utter frustration of some activists working for generations without expected results. Winning voting rights was extremely difficult in its time.

“Over the 20th century, many attitudes have shifted. The winning of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was generally marginalized and not considered relevant when I was attending school. When I started blogging in 2009, most folks had no idea what I was talking about when I used the word ‘suffrage.’ Their eyes glazed over. Many people yawned in my face.

“I blogged until I found others like me who wanted to reverse the silence, secrets, and marginalization. I had an amusing term for others like me—cradle rockers. The year 2020 is astonishing in terms of what many Americans are learning and thinking about. The decentralized and once radical movement of women’s voting rights has taken on a life of its own.”

Marguerite Kearns

“An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights” is in the publishing pipeline by SUNY Press (State University of New York) for release in June 2021.

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We support US women recognized and acknowledged in the list of national holidays. Check with the National Women’s History Alliance for updates.

Put a human face on history. Follow the path leading to SUNY Press (State University of NY) and the press publishing the story of Edna and Wilmer Kearns and their involvement in the early women’s rights movement. Release expected in June of 2021.

Go to the web site for the National Women’s History Alliance!

IT’S IMPORTANT TO BE WORKING ON YOUR OWN FAMILY ARCHIVE

Check out the 2020 suffrage centennial updates.

Suffrage centennials are taking on more importance than ever before! a video on Vimeo.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

VOTE: It’s a Right That Didn’t Come Easy! on Vimeo.

SUFFRAGE CENTENNIALS WEB SITE SUPPORTED NEW YORK STATE IN 2017!

Suffrage Centennials honored New York State’s 100 years of women voters in 2017! on Vimeo.

Reminder about Month of October 2020 for online event!

Drop in (online) for burial ground dedication for suffrage activist Edna Buckman Kearns. Ceremony available during the entire month of October 2020 online. Link.

The human side of social change is highlighted in the upcoming book by Marguerite Kearns due for release from SUNY Press (State University of New York) in June 2021.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

Women’s Suffrage Centennial events & celebrations: News Notes on Vimeo.

Inez Milholland’s family members, some distant, kept her memory alive throughout the 20th century when the early women’s rights history was marginalized, considered boring and unimportant, and it was either invisible or referred to in a single photo caption.

It’s hard to keep up now with the amount of material published about the early women’s rights movement. This includes descendants of the activists. In July 2020 a conference, “Seneca Falls Revisited” featured the great great grand niece of Harriet Tubman. One extended family group had a representative—the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass.

BOOKS BY FAMILY MEMBERS ARE MOVING THROUGH THE PUBLISHING PIPELINES

There are increasing occasions when someone speaks in public or writes about their ancestor or family member. John Holliday from Australia is one example. He had planned to visit the United States to promote his book about his suffrage ancestor, but the pandemic called a halt to his plans.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

If you know of an ancestor publishing a book about their suffrage activist family members or ancestors, get in touch! Plan for your book club—especially a book about an early women’s rights activist written by a descendant.

“An Unfinished Revolution” Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights” by Marguerite Kearns is one example.

Rocking the Cradle got the Women’s Rights Movement out in Front on Vimeo.

An article about the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns will be featured in the next issue of “New York History” scheduled for publication in November 2020. The article will be an adapted selection from An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights that is scheduled for publication in June 2021 by SUNY Press.. Here’s information about “New York History” from their web page.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.