About Me
- margaretmay
- In 1972 I was extremely lucky to be a student of Dr. Ann Keppel in her ground breaking class about the history of the education of women. She encouraged me to read biographies of women. My first choices were “The Terrible Siren”, the biography of Victoria Woodhull and the “Portrait of Josephine Butler”, the biography of the woman who fought against laws requiring prostitutes in England to submit to medical examinations. I wish to spread awareness and respect for the extraordinary work, courage, tenacity and boldness of women’s lives. I edited Robert Cooney’s “Winning the Vote; The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement.” I have been a board member of the National Women’s History Project from 1980 to 2013. I have made women’s history the great passion of my life. I have read the histories of many cultures, finding how women coped and made history in difficult and challenging times; often unrecognizable in male histories. My main passion remains the triumphant success of the suffrage movement in the United States from 1848 until victory in 1920. Please share family members with me who worked on suffrage and should be honored.
1 comment:
Spreading the word about these women is so valuable. We all need reminders of how much things can change if people join together and try.
Dale
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