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How the Bicycle Helped Usher in the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890)January 14, 2021 at 4:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLJgkVsXpE
The early history of the bicycle did not promise great things—or anything, really—for women at the dawn of the 19th century. A two-wheeled bicycle-like invention, for example, built in 1820, “was more like an agricultural implement in construction than a bicycle,” one bicycle history notes. Made of wood, the “hobby horses” and velocipedes of cycling’s first decades rolled on iron wheels. Their near-total lack of suspension led to the epithet “b...Tags: Google, New York, Congress, College, France, San Francisco, History, Atlantic, Ohio, Vox, Belle Epoque, Facebook Twitter, Adrienne LaFrance, Josh Jones, Susan B Anthony, London Paris 116 people like this. Like How the Bicycle Accelerated the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890)January 14, 2021 at 4:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLJgkVsXpE
The early history of the bicycle did not promise great things—or anything, really—for women at the dawn of the 19th century. A two-wheeled bicycle-like invention, for example, built in 1820, “was more like an agricultural implement in construction than a bicycle,” one bicycle history notes. Made of wood, the “hobby horses” and velocipedes of cycling’s first decades rolled on iron wheels. Their near-total lack of suspension led to the epithet “b...Tags: Google, New York, Congress, College, France, San Francisco, History, Atlantic, Ohio, Vox, Belle Epoque, Facebook Twitter, Adrienne LaFrance, Josh Jones, Susan B Anthony, London Paris 146 people like this. Like Who has President Trump pardoned? Allies, supporters and inspirational figuresDecember 3, 2020 at 11:58 AM Trump had granted pardoned allies such as former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and historical figures including Susan B. Anthony.
[Author: USA TODAY]Tags: Usa, News, Usa Today, Trump, Susan B Anthony, Michael Flynn 66 people like this. Like Joe Exotic's lawyer thinks he's 'very, very close' to getting a presidential pardon from TrumpDecember 2, 2020 at 8:05 AM An image showing Joe Exotic, the star of Netflix's "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness."
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The lawyer for "Tiger King" star Joe Exotic says he is "very, very close" to getting a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump.
Exotic, real name Joseph Maldano-Passage, is serving 22 years in prison after being convicted of crimes including two counts of murder-for-hire.
"We are waiting on the pen to hit the paper," attorney Eric Love told ABC News on Tuesday.
Presidential par...Tags: Politics, Entertainment, White House, Russia, Love, Trends, Fbi, Netflix, Washington Dc, New York Times, Arizona, News UK, Joe Arpaio, Donald Trump, Abc News, Rudy Giuliani 146 people like this. Like People who place their 'I Voted' stickers on Susan B. Anthony's headstone will notice something different there this yearOctober 27, 2020 at 6:35 PM For years, it's been a local tradition: Sticking "I Voted" stickers in Susan B. Anthony's grave.Tags: Cnn, Susan B Anthony 49 people like this. Like Voting 2020 live updates: What state makes it hardest to vote? Mississippi; if you want your mail-in ballot counted anywhere, send it todayOctober 27, 2020 at 12:13 PM GOP needs in-person Florida early voters. Wisconsin court asked to rule on ballot misprints. No more stickers for Susan B. Anthony. Latest news.
[Author: USA TODAY]Tags: Florida, Usa, News, Mississippi, Gop, Wisconsin, Usa Today, Susan B Anthony 78 people like this. Like Voting 2020 live updates: Want your mail-in vote to count? Better mail it today; early voting continues in crucial Florida, across USOctober 27, 2020 at 9:46 AM GOP needs in-person Florida early voters. Wisconsin court asked to rule on ballot misprints. No more stickers for Susan B. Anthony. Latest news.
[Author: USA TODAY]Tags: Florida, Usa, News, US, Gop, Wisconsin, Usa Today, Susan B Anthony 78 people like this. Like No more putting 'I Voted' stickers on Susan B. Anthony's headstone in New YorkOctober 26, 2020 at 10:45 AM Clear plastic sleeves have been put over Susan B. Anthony's headstone, and her sister's, because sticker adhesive and removal were causing damage.
[Author: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle]Tags: New York, News, Rochester, Susan B Anthony, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 114 people like this. Like Mattel launches Susan B. Anthony Barbie ahead of Election DayOctober 5, 2020 at 12:12 PM Mattel's Barbie adds Susan B. Anthony doll to its roster of inspiring women educating young people about voting and women's rights.Tags: Barbie, Mattel, Susan B Anthony, Susan B Anthony Barbie 33 people like this. Like Whether Providing Information on COVID-19 or Voter Registration, Public Service Is Part of PROctober 1, 2020 at 10:00 AM A profession has a responsibility to engage in public service — especially in times of crisis. This year surely meets that criterion: a raging pandemic, a shattered economy, a divided national polity. The year 2020 has rightly been called an annus miserabilis, Latin for “a miserable year.”
During these troubled times, PRSA, its individual members and PR practitioners nationwide have undertaken a host of pro bono public service responsibilities. It is not incidental to PRSA’s mission that the Pau...Tags: Usa, Voting, Pr, United States, Presidential Election, Thought Leadership, Susan B Anthony, PRSA, Manhattan College, PRSA Health Academy, Paul M Lund Service, John Paluszek, Commission on Public Relations Education Paluszek 6 people like this. Like Amy Coney Barrett nominated to fill Supreme Court seat vacated by GinsburgSeptember 26, 2020 at 5:16 PM President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.
Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 election, as they aim to lock in conservative gains in the federal judiciary before a potential transition of power. Trump, meanwhile, is hoping the ...Tags: News, Supreme Court, Senate, US, Sport, Joe Biden, Chicago, Harvard, Soccer, Pennsylvania, Gop, Yale, Wisconsin, Catholic, Republican, Biden 26 people like this. Like Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to fill Supreme Court seat vacated by GinsburgSeptember 26, 2020 at 5:16 PM President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.
Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 election, as they aim to lock in conservative gains in the federal judiciary before a potential transition of power. Trump, meanwhile, is hoping the ...Tags: News, Supreme Court, Senate, US, Sport, Joe Biden, Chicago, Harvard, Soccer, Pennsylvania, Gop, Yale, Wisconsin, Catholic, Republican, Biden 23 people like this. Like The 19th Amendment Turns 100: Historian Explains How Law Didn’t Exactly ‘Give Women The Vote’August 25, 2020 at 4:37 PM (CBS Philadelphia) — The 19th Amendment is commonly viewed as giving women the right to vote. That isn’t entirely accurate. When it was certified into law 100 years ago on August 26, millions of women could already vote for president and other elected offices.
Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and Utah all allowed women to vote before the turn of the 20th Century. Washington, California and Oregon were among the seven additional western states to enfranchise women early in the decade leading up to the ra...Tags: Utah, Politics, New York, News, Oregon, Senate, White House, Pennsylvania, United States, Tennessee, House, Cbs, Philadelphia, Anthony, South, Wilson 29 people like this. Like "Objection! Mr. President, Susan B. Anthony must decline your offer of a pardon."August 21, 2020 at 11:13 AM "Anthony wrote in her diary in 1873 that her trial for voting was 'The greatest outrage History ever witnessed.' She was not allowed to speak as a witness in her own defense, because she was a woman. At the conclusion of arguments, Judge Hunt dismissed the jury and pronounced her guilty. She was outraged to be denied a trial by jury. She proclaimed, 'I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.' To pay would have been to validate the proceedings. To pardon Susan B. Anthony does the same."F...Tags: Law, Museums, Pardons, Anthony, Trump, Voting Rights, Hunt, Susan B. Anthony, Ann Althouse, Unfair Sentence, Trump and crime, Deborah L Hughes 23 people like this. Like Susan B. Anthony museum rejects Trump pardonAugust 21, 2020 at 8:58 AM Following Trump's posthumous pardon for suffragist Susan B. Anthony, the museum founded in her memory is rejecting the gesture.
"Objection! Mr. President, Susan B. Anthony must decline your offer of a pardon," Deborah L. Hughes wrote in a statement. She continued:"Anthony wrote in her diary in 1873 that her trial for voting was 'The greatest outrage History ever witnessed.' She was not allowed to speak as a witness in her own defense, because she was a woman. At the conclusion of arguments, J...Tags: Post, Politics, News, History, Anthony, Trump, Voting Rights, Hunt, Hughes, Susan B Anthony, Deborah L Hughes 42 people like this. Like 'Objection!': Susan B. Anthony museum rejects President Trump's pardon of the suffragette leaderAugust 20, 2020 at 8:21 PM The museum dedicated to Susan B. Anthony objected to Trump's pardon, saying it "validated the proceedings" that led to her conviction.
[Author: USA TODAY]Tags: Usa, News, Usa Today, Trump, Susan B Anthony 62 people like this. Like Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Trump Pardon, Says How He Can Really Honor HerAugust 20, 2020 at 4:21 AM "Objection! Mr. President, Susan B. Anthony must decline your offer of a pardon today!"Tags: News, Susan B Anthony 34 people like this. Like Essential Reads on Feminism: The New York Public Library Creates a Reading List to Honor the 100th Anniversary of the 19th AmendmentAugust 19, 2020 at 4:01 AM We may all have the best of intentions when we collect and share reading lists. We buy the books, stack them neatly by the chair or bed, then something happens. Like… literally, every day, something happens…. Let’s cut ourselves some slack. We’ll get to those books, or give them away to people who will read them, which is also a good thing to do.
But even if we can’t keep up, reading lists are still essential educational tools, especially for kids, young adults, and their parents and teachers. ...Tags: Google, College, Uncategorized, NFL, America, Atlantic, Malala Yousafzai, Ken Burns, Guatemala, New York Public Library, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Civil rights movement, Maya Angelou, Cornell, Matthew 64 people like this. Like We Don't Need Susan B. Anthony To Be PardonedAugust 19, 2020 at 3:00 AM By Amanda Mannen Published: August 19th, 2020 Tags: Humor, Susan B Anthony, Amanda Mannen 40 people like this. Like Trump's pardon may be undermining Anthony's wishes, historians sayAugust 18, 2020 at 6:29 PM Standing in the White House Blue Room on Tuesday, President Donald Trump expressed surprise that Susan B. Anthony, the woman's rights activist who was arrested and found guilty for voting in 1872, had never been pardoned.Tags: Cnn, Donald Trump, Anthony, Trump, Susan B Anthony, White House Blue Room 31 people like this. Like Opinion: Why the Susan B. Anthony pardon is perfectly TrumpianAugust 18, 2020 at 5:30 PM President Donald Trump is gunning for the women's vote, and so to great fanfare, he announced his plans to pardon one very prominent woman: Susan B. Anthony, who died in 1906.Tags: News, Stories, Donald Trump, Susan B Anthony 15 people like this. Like Why the Susan B. Anthony pardon is perfectly TrumpianAugust 18, 2020 at 5:30 PM By pardoning Susan B. Anthony on the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, President Trump is paying lip service to a fighter for women's suffrage just as he's working to disenfranchise millions of American voters, says Jill Filipovic.Tags: Cnn, Trump, Susan B Anthony 5 people like this. Like Why Susan B. Anthony pardon is so TrumpianAugust 18, 2020 at 5:30 PM President Donald Trump is gunning for the women's vote, and so to great fanfare, he announced his plans to pardon one very prominent woman: Susan B. Anthony, who died in 1906.Tags: News, Stories, Donald Trump, Susan B Anthony 36 people like this. Like Who was Susan B Anthony and how did she change America forever?August 18, 2020 at 2:48 PM Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would posthumously pardon Susan B Anthony, one of the most visible figures of the 19th century women's suffrage movement in the US.The president’s declaration came on the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in America, and as he lags behind Democratic candidate Joe Biden in polls ahead of the November election.Tags: News, US, America, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Susan B Anthony 109 people like this. Like Nearly 150 years ago, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting when women weren't allowed to. Today, she'll get a pardonAugust 18, 2020 at 12:52 PM On Tuesday, President Donald Trump pardoned the defiant suffragist on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote. Anthony died before the amendment was passed, though she's perhaps the best-known leader of the women's suffrage movement.Tags: Cnn, Donald Trump, Anthony, Susan B Anthony 13 people like this. Like Twitter Users Not Impressed With Trump’s Susan B. Anthony PardonAugust 18, 2020 at 12:31 PM One man predicted Trump will soon be complaining that Susan B. Anthony still hasn't thanked him for the pardon.Tags: News, Trump, Susan B Anthony, Susan B Anthony Pardon 49 people like this. Like Trump says he's pardoning Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested for illegally voting in 1872August 18, 2020 at 10:24 AM President Trump is posthumously pardoning Susan B. Anthony on the 19th amendment's 100-year anniversary.Trump on Tuesday announced that he's signing a "full and complete pardon" of the women's suffrage activist, who was arrested for voting illegally in 1872, The New York Times reports."I was so surprised that it was never done before," Trump said of the pardon, also asking, "what took so long?"Trump had said on Monday he would soon announce a "very important" pardon, though Anthony...Tags: News, Stephen Colbert, Nbc News, Dnc, The Times, The New York Times, Times, Anthony, Trump, Susan B Anthony, Susan B Anthony List, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Michelle Obama Trump Trump to pardon women's voting pioneer Susan B AnthonyAugust 18, 2020 at 10:15 AM The famous Suffragette was convicted by an all-male jury of illegally voting when women were barred.Tags: News, Suffragette, Trump, Susan B Anthony 50 people like this. Like |