Inez Milholland Boissevain

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.

Thursday, August 12, 2021

DEATH | Al[fred] Boissevain, January 5, 2016

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The following is from The Almanac, January 2016. It is a weekly California newspaper published to about 15,000 readers in Menlo Park, Athert...
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Sunday, May 16, 2021

VOTES FOR WOMEN | Turning Point Suffrage Memorial Open!

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May 16, 2021—The Turning Point Suffrage Memorial was formally opened today.  The  program was well thought out, was preceded and followed by...
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Sunday, April 25, 2021

MARCONI | Jamesons and MacDonnells

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Guglielmo Marconi April 25, 2021—This day was born (in 1874) Guglielmo Marconi, in Bologna, Italy.  He has at least three connections to Ine...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

DU BOIS, W.E.B. | Birth, February 23

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W. E. B. Du Bois February 23, 2021—This day in 1868 was born W.E.B Du Bois, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.  He said he didn't reall...
Monday, February 22, 2021

MILLAY | Birth, February 22 (129 in 2021)

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February 22, 2021 — Today is the 129th birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain was married first to Inez Milho...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

MILLAY | Recuerdo (The Ferry Poem)

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Millay (This poem was shown on the New York City subway system for years, in its Poetry in Motion series...) Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Mi...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

How the Death of Inez Milholland Sparked the Picketing that Changed Wilson's Mind and Led to the 19th Amendment

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Dean C. C. Langdell August 26, 2020—Today is the Centennial of the formal Ratification of the 19th Amendment, which made it the Constitu...
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