I should have known I had “marching on Albany” in my DNA. It would have made life so much easier. And it had to have been a stretch for my grandparents, Edna and Wilmer Kearns (marked on the photo above), when they headed out with suffrage activist Rosalie Jones and others from Long Island on New Year’s Day in 1914 for the trek to Albany, NY to speak to the governor about Votes for Women. Hiking was quite a media event, and the NY Times was there as the hikers started north. My grandmother Edna sent on-the-scene reports back to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle where she was an editor for suffrage news. The photo below is from the Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Edna and Wilmer and their oldest daughter Serena are seen there, on the right, walking near the flag.
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Important Links
- Alice Paul Institute
- Chick History
- ElectWomen
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Her Hat Was in the Ring
- League of Women Voters
- Let's rock the cradle
- Long Island Suffrage Movement
- Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation & Home
- National Archives Online
- National Constitution Center
- National Women's History Museum
- National Women's History Project
- New York State Museum
- NYC Women's History Walk
- Organizing Toolbox: Video
- Sewall-Bemont House and Museum
- Songs of the Suffragettes- Recording
- Stanton and Anthony Papers
- Suffrage Buffs of America
- Suffrage Centennials
- Suffrage Memorabilia
- Suffrage Wagon News Channel
- Suffragist Elisabeth Freeman
- Suffragist Oral Histories
- Susan B. Anthony House
- The Women's Museum
- Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
- Women's Heritage Trails
- Women's History Carnival
- Women's Rights National Historic Park (Seneca Falls, NY)
- Womens Enews
- WomensSuffrage.org
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Fabulous story. Great photos. What a treat to find this blog. I know. I got carried away. I couldn’t help myself.
This is one of my favorite stories.