This post was devoted to an unusual letter that was being posted for the family for the first time 95 years later, because of its emotional nature of the content.
Some of the descendants of Robert (Robby) Walrave Boissevain (1872-1938) and Rosie Phibbs (1875-1937) are still sad about the fact that Robert left his wife Rosie and their six children behind in Holland and moved to England and then to the United States in search of a new career and a new life.
This post has been merged with another one and is kept up to preserve links.
INEZ MILHOLLAND BOISSEVAIN – Stories of an American suffragette, who led the 1913 Washington march, championing the black Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her death in 1916 galvanized the National Woman's Party, which launched picketing of Wilson's White House. After arrests of the picketers, and a hunger strike and maltreatment of the prisoners (force-feeding), public opinion changed. Wilson did too, and the 19th Amendment became law in 1920.
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