Volume 14 , Issue 10

Duchess of Weaselskin

With March being Women's History month NW Okie told me in an affable emphatical manner to be sure you let you know that The OkieLegacy newsletter will be honoring Women's History throughout the month of March. We believe it is very important, especially now, to honor the 19th through 20th century Suffrage movements for Women's Rights and equality for all.

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On This Day In History (March 5th)

It was on this date in history, March 5th, 1946, when Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Great Britain's wartime Prime Minister asserted that a mere balance of power in the world today would be too narrow a margin and would only offer "temptations to a trial of strength." On the contrary, he added that the English-speaking peoples must maintain an overwhelming preponderance of power on their side until "the highroads of the future will be clear, not only for our time but for a century to come."

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NW Okie's Corner

Have you ever wonder "If" your ancestor's had participated in the Suffrage movement of the 1850's and the Women's Suffrage movement of the 19th & 20th century? If you could go back before your ancestors had died to ask them about their involvement in the Suffrage movements, what would you ask them? It would help fill-in a few pieces of the puzzle to be able to interview them today!

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100 Years Ago Today March 5, 1912

The San Francisco Call, in San Francisco, dated Tuesday, March 5, 1912 main page bold headlines at the top read: "Taft Followers, Confident of Victory, Organize." There was a photo with this caption, "Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz addressing the 300 women who yesterday formed the woman's State Taft Republican Club at the Palace Hotel. The Woman on the extreme left, with the gavel is Mrs. Abbie E. Krebs, president of the club; Between her and the speaker is Mrs. Belinda A. Bailey, secretary of the club, and behind the speaker is Mrs. Goodman Lowenthal. One of the active workers. The other women in the picture are district leaders and workers in the cause of the renomination and re-election of President William Howard Taft."

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Highland County Virginia - Under the British Crown

This week's journey through the early day of Highland County, Virginia takes us to Chapter IX of Oren Frederic Morton's book entitled, The History of Highland County, Virginia. It deals with Highland under the British Crown; Settlers after the Indian War; Pioneer Homes; Manner of life; Farming customs, roads, mills and Taverns; Church and School interests organization of Augusta; County courts, punishments, lawsuits wills, deeds and surveys and White servants.

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Women's Suffrage History In America

This week's OkieLegacy Ezine celebrates our ancestors who fought for "Women's Rights" going back to when it began at the National Women's Suffrage Association in Chicago in 1880. If only we could go back while our grandmother's were still alive to ask them their thoughts on the Women's Suffrage movement in America! Did they participate or following with an intense and passionate feeling for "Rights of All Women and human beings?"

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Suffrage History In America

Though the Chicago women did not win complete suffrage until 1920, the first women's organization to raise the suffrage issue directly was the Chicago Sorosis Club, founded by Mary Livermore, Myra Bradwell, and Kate Doggett in 1868. It was this founding, the Sorosis confronted the issue of whether to concentrate on securing women's rights alone, or to promote a universal suffrage that included black suffrage and rejected any property or education requirements for voting.

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The 75 Suffragists of America

At the end of the 18th century, individual liberty was being hotly debated. It was because of the Suffragists working for the American woman's right to vote that finally happened in April, 1920. Their political roles have been minimal until 1984 a major political party chose Geraldine Ferraro of New York to run for Vice-President.

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News on Women's Suffrage (1881 & 1885)

[Click images for larger view.] -- We begin with this mention of an article we found in the National Republican, Wednesday, 19 January 1881, with headlines that read, "Bound To Vote" and Woman's Suffrage Association thirteenth yearly convention and the Nott Memorial Services with speeches by prominent workers in the cause with Squire Lockwood advising the study of the law.

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When Clowns Make Laws ....

When Clowns Make Laws . . . is taken from the selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.

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WW II POW List of Camps

We received this inquiry this last week concerning Fabian Kuhn is looking for a list of POW camps in Oklahoma during World War II for his grandfather records as a POW during WWII, in the Glennan General Hospital in Okmulgee, Oklahoma [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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