A Special Suffrage Christmas Tree!

Posted on December 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

My grandmother Edna May Buckman was born Christmas day in 1882, the daughter of Charles Harper Buckman and May Phipps Begley.   I found a 1910 article about a Christmas suffrage tree and holiday party that shows how the holiday festivities were tied to the suffrage organizing in New York City and it’s precisely the kind of event Edna and daughter Serena would have enjoyed. The children attending the 1910 suffrage holiday party walked away with candy wrapped in suffrage colors and a Votes for Women button.

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3 Responses to A Special Suffrage Christmas Tree!

  1. safiya | December 25, 2010 at 11:44 pm | Reply

    What a great site! So informative AND lively! I Love “Oh Dear What Can
    the Matter Be?”

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