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16Aug

How to Host a Suffragist Memorial Party

By Lauriane Lebrun In honor of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association’s Iron Jawed Angels viewing party (which I’m hosting on Twitter on August 26, 2015, the Nineteenth Amendment’s ninety-fifth birthday!), I decided to have a little fun with this blog post by creating a “suffragist memorial party”
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03Aug

TPSMA Launches National University Campus Affiliates Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2015 CONTACT: Whitney G. Stohr 509-844-1185 wstohr@suffragistmemorial.org www.suffragistmemorial.org TPSMA Launches National University Campus Affiliates Program Virginia non-profit raising funds to construct national memorial honoring women suffragists invites individual college
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01Aug

How Do Millennial Women Feel About the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

By Lauriane Lebrun Before I became an intern for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association, I didn’t spend much time thinking about the history of women’s voting rights.  I had seen Iron Jawed Angels (2004) and learned some basic facts about the suffrage movement in school.  Yet, until recently, I was
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18Jul

What is Empowerment?

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
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07Jul

7 Suffragist Men and the Importance of Allies

By Lauriane Lebrun Male allies were vital to the success of the women’s suffrage movement.  As members of a privileged group, men had the advantage of being influential and respected in most areas, especially at the polls and in government.  While some used this against the suffragists, others reasoned that giving
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