Notes – NewsEla: Suffragists Passage

Michelle Duster
 Juggling research and writing, teaching and speaking
 founder of the NAACP and a suffragist who demanded voting rights be inseparable from civil rights
 refused to comply with Alice Paul's segregation of the 8,000-strong Woman Suffrage Procession
 She teaches writing at Columbia College Chicago and tutors at Wilbur Wright College.
 She is creating an initiative "to educate people about the involvement of Black women in the suffrage movement,
and how it ties into today

Pamela Swing and Anna Plotkin-Swing

 Pamela Swing's grandmother traveled the country as an organizer for the National Woman's Party
 She and her sister Alice, a journalist in the family's home city of Portland, Oregon, hopped a train to Washington
in 1917, and joined a White House protest demanding Wilson's support for the 19th Amendment.
 Because they were striking poses, they were sent to jail and beat severely by the prison guards.
 She read her grandmothers book “Night of Terror”
 Like her grandmother, Pamela Swing was hooked. Today she is a resident scholar at Brandeis Women's Studies
Research Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, focused on the history of the suffrage movement.
  In 2017, the centennial of the White House demonstration, Pamela Swing organized a reenactment in
Washington.

Jessye Kass

 Lewis was one of the first members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Alice Paul
and Lucy Burns, and she served in several top roles, including treasurer.
 During a crackdown at the prison, prison guards knocked Lewis unconscious against an iron bedstead. They force-
fed her through a tube down her throat when she refused to eat.
 In college she ran the Attukwei Art Foundation, a nonprofit providing art therapy to children in Ghana.

Kenneth B. Morris

 In 1866, he joined Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in founding the American Equal Rights
Association, demanding suffrage for all people.
 Morris grew riveted by a National Geographic article on global human trafficking titled "21st Century Slaves," as
his two daughters, then 12 and 9, got ready for bed.
 Morris co-founded Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, "to 'unfit' communities to allow slavery to exist and
thrive
 We started speaking to students, trying to get a sense of where they were. They were filled with anger
 Morris has been speaking out to correct another historical wrong: the near-erasure of his great-great-great
grandmother, Anna Murray Douglass. A free Black woman, she sold her personal belongings to help finance
Douglass' escape from slavery.

Marguerite Buckman Kearns

 Joined the nationwide women's march in her adopted home of New Mexico
  Edna Buckman Kearns, a Quaker suffragist, her grandfather, Wilmer Kearns, and their daughter Serena. Edna
Buckman Kearns, who died in 1934, played a major role in New York's suffrage campaign

 Marguerite Kearns followed her grandmother's career path, working as a reporter and editor for the Woodstock
Times in Woodstock, New York, from its founding in 1972 through the 1980s
 Marguerite Kearns, retired from the National Education Association, now works to ensure that lesser-known
suffragists retain their place in history. 
 Marguerite Kearns' book, "An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women's
Rights," will be published in 2021.

Joyce Stokes Jones and Michele Jones Galvin

 Over 30 years she read and researched, traveled and interviewed, learning all she could about Tubman,
abolitionist and suffragist, friend of Douglass, Lucretia Mott and Anthony
 Tubman escaped, then through the Underground Railroad, led slaves to freedom. During the Civil War she led a
spy network for the Union.
 never learned to read or write, she was a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs,
prominent advocates for universal suffrage.
 began writing a weekly column on Black heritage for the Syracuse Herald Journal and produced programming on
Black history for local television
 Her rescue missions, military prowess and support of women's suffrage speak for themselves.

Coline Jenkins

 Stanton's father was a judge in Johnstown, New York, with an office in the family home on Main Street. 
 With a family of her own — helped launch the movement that culminated in 1920, nearly two decades after her
death, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment by all 50 states.
 She is vice president of Monumental Women, which secured a site for the Women's Rights Pioneers monument,
portraying Stanton, Anthony and Sojourner Truth, in New York's Central Park.
 Jenkins lobbied for passage of federal legislation creating a National Votes for Women Trail.

Susan Whiting

 Barely out of her 20s, Anthony teamed up with Stanton to galvanize the suffrage movement. She traveled the
nation to promote an unlawful idea; in 1872 she actually was arrested, for voting. Anthony died in 1906 with her
goal unrealized, but by then, as she noted, failure was "impossible."
 Today Whiting chairs the board of the National Women's History Museum, founded by Karen Staser, a researcher
and organizational psychologist who noted that there was no museum or research repository devoted to women's
history.
 1997 effort to position The Woman Suffrage Statue, aka Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Stanton and
Anthony, carved by Adelaide Johnson, in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. The 7-ton sculpture had been displayed in the
basement of the Capitol since its unveiling in 1921.

Rohulamin Quander and Carmen Quander

 The Quanders are one of the Washington, D.C., region's largest and most illustrious African American families.
 Quander descendants include the first Black people to hold leadership roles in education, medicine, commerce
and the military.
 Nellie Quander, educator and activist for Black women's rights, taught in Washington public schools while earning
her degree at Howard University.
became president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the African American sorority, in 1911, three
years after its founding on the campus. In 1913, Nellie Quander incorporated AKA,
preserving its founding principles, including high scholastic and ethical standards and
service in perpetuity. It now has 300,000 members.
Nellie Quander supported women's suffrage, and when the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, founded by Paul and Burns, announced plans for the Woman
Suffrage
Nellie Quander worked to empower women as a national leader in the YWCA, where
she served for more than 50 years, until her death in 1961.
Notes – NewsEla: Young Women leading activist charge
Daniela Charris was first to protest death of George Floyd

She felt like there was no structure to the protest and people were just walking around

One of the eight leeders of the queens iberations project. Organizes against racism.

She says that women of color have been silenced.

She is a young women leading the change wanting people to treat people of color equally.

Jay'dha Rackard is 11 years old. She lives in Massachusetts. She spoke at a Peaceful Children's March against police
violence on June 7. Her goal is to have a worldwide children's march.

Kennedy Mitchum lives in Missouri. She said she protested several times. It was because she wants to teach the public
about racism.

Celeste Montoya Kirk is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She said some white women did not want
Black people to vote. That caused the movement to split, she said.