by gkiley | Jun 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Students in a Brown University American Studies course have collaborated with Providence’s Lippitt House Museum to create a new website, “Suffrage in Rhode Island: A Lippitt Family Perspective.” The website includes an interactive timeline about the complicated...
by gkiley | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Wendy Rouse, associate professor of history at San Jose State University, describes how suffragists defied the gendered conventions of their day, and how historians often gloss over the existence of queer...
by gkiley | Jun 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Article: Black Women Had to Fight for the Right to Vote on Two Fronts This article by Sarah Elizabeth Adler, published in AARP in February 2020, describes how black suffragists combated both sexism and racism as they pushed for the right to vote. Jun 12, 2020 Gillian...
by gkiley | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Rhode Island Presidential Primary Rhode Island’s Presidential Preference Primary election will take place on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. According to the State of Rhode Island Board of Elections, the primary will be conducted predominantly by mail, with limited...
