Join Us at the Memorial Day Parade!
The Long Island Woman Suffrage Association will again march in the Glen Cove Memorial Day Parade, Monday, May 27, 2019. Please join us to celebrate New York State’s ratification of the 19th Amendment which occurred on June 16, 1919. It then went on its way throughout the rest of the nation, resulting in its final […]
Suffragist of the Month – May, 2019
Julia Ward Howe, 1819 – 1910 Julia Ward Howe is probably best known for her poem, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which was set to the music of an old folk tune, and became the semi-official song of the Union Army during the Civil War. But in addition to writing poetry, biographies and essays […]
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