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The suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns.
Suffrage Wagon News Channel
- New York State Legislative Resolution designing July 1, 2013 the "Spirit of 1776" Wagon Day. suffragewagon.org/?p=7323 #wmnhist 7 hours ago
- Grandmother Edna Kearns' "Spirit of 1776" wagon gets media attention 100 years after the fact. news10.com/story/22631348… #wmnhist 10 hours ago
- A video about the suffrage campaign wagon everyone's been hearing about. youtube.com/watch?v=4do9HZ… #wmnhist 2 days ago
- July 1, 2013 will be the "Spirit of 1776" Wagon Day in New York State. suffragewagon.org/?p=7319 #wmnhist 2 days ago
- What was suffrage activist Edna Kearns doing on June 27, 1913? Grassroots organizing, that's what. suffragewagon.org/?p=7312 #wmnhist 6 days ago
- 100 years since suffrage wagon "Spirit of 1776"left Manhattan. Celebrate with video. Ode to wagon. youtube.com/watch?v=SBXBu3… 1 week ago
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How could a wealthy woman like Alva Belmont be a radical Votes for Women advocate?
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Go, Mrs. Belmont. You’re not in the same category of those rich ladies today who love rubbing elbows with the one percent of our nation and then look down on the rest of us as lazy and undeserving. Mrs. Belmont stuck her neck out and you can be sure there were plenty of those who would have wanted it cut off.