29 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Hot/Not, Power to the People, Virginia NOW, Women's Liberation Tags: 19th Amendment, Anti-Slavery Convention, Anti-suffragists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Empower, empowerment, Equal rights, History, Lauriane Lebrun, New Jersey, Silent Sentinels, Suffrage, Suffragists, Tennessee, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, Vineland, Vote, Voting rights, Women, Women's history, Women's Rights
By Lauriane Lebrun Empowerment. From “empower” (em-pou-er). “1) To give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means. 2) To enable or permit.” I have been thinking about this word a lot. As one will find in the design plans for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, “empowerment” is set to be the memorial theme. […]
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26 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Equal Rights Amendment, Feminist Celebrations, Hot/Not, Virginia NOW Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Margaret Milner Richardson, Occoquan Workhouse, Silent Sentinel Award, Suffrage, Suffrage movement, Suffragist Memorial, The Woodlands at Algonkian, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, Women's history
The Honorable Margaret Milner Richardson received the 2015 Silent Sentinel Award on September 17, 2015, at the The Woodlands at Algonkian in Sterling, Virginia. The annual Silent Sentinel Award honors a person who has been instrumental in advocating for women’s rights in the United States. It highlights and honors outstanding individuals who share common traits with those who stood […]
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