Publisher: Maine Authors Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-63381-259-8The names Ingeborg Kinstedt and Maria Kindbergprobably donât ring a bell unless you are acquainted with thewomanâs suffrage movement. Yet, these two middle-aged Swedishimmigrants, who settled in Rhode Island, played a meaningful role inthe early part of the twentieth century in the movement.
Based on a true story, Anne B. Gass in
WeDemand: The Suffrage Road Trip crafts afictional reconstruction of a bold 3000-mile cross-country auto tripfrom San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 involving Ingeborg andMaria.
The two, along with Sara Bard Field and socialiteFrances Joliffe were to amass and deliver thousands of signatures ona petition to Congress and President Wilson, demanding womenâsright to vote.
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Nearly a century after it was first proposed by Alice Paul, and
four decades after it was passed by Congress, the Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA) has now met all of the requirements for an
amendment in Article V of the Constitution. And efforts continue in
both the courts and Congress to eliminate the ERA s time limit
on ratification as a barrier to its effectiveness.
On March 18, the Federal Bar Association Chicago Chapter will
host a virtual CLE program featuring on-the-ground activists and
legal scholars including Linda Coberly Winston & Strawn
Trump-loving white women are protecting Matt Gaetz. History tells us why.
White women in the United States have often wielded their collective power to support and amplify white male oppressors. Gaetz is just the latest politician to receive their cover.
Matt Gaetz likely knew Trump-supporting white women would look the other way.Chelsea Stahl / MSNBC; Getty Images
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The move sheds light on a history of how white men, specifically misogynists and white supremacists, have found refuge in white women’s groups.
Some might wonder why a congressman currently under federal investigation over whether he had sex with a minor would be headlining a women’s summit. But Gaetz’s appearance at the summit, as well as his efforts to promote his talk leading up to his Friday speech, were no mere coincidence.