A Selection From Are Women People? Poems by Alice Duer Miller

"They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of representatives do not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have votes." --------------Benjamin Franklin This is the first quote to appear in Alice Duer Miller's final section of Are Women People?, The Unconscious Suffragists . She takes quotes from different people talking … Continue reading A Selection From Are Women People? Poems by Alice Duer Miller

A Hypocritical America: An Examination of Ida B Wells-Barnett’s Southern Horrors

Cover of Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases. The New York Age, 1892. From New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Black Culture Digital Collections. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases was first published in 1892 in response to the mob that kept author Ida B. Wells-Barnett from returning … Continue reading A Hypocritical America: An Examination of Ida B Wells-Barnett’s Southern Horrors