Word: suffragist
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...declared, and with braid-crowned head thrust back and lanky arms flailing, she marched through life as if being a saint were the least of it. This fierce woman, this muscular Christian, founded and edited the intransigently radical Catholic Worker. She suffered prison zestfully for her conscience, as suffragist and pacifist. At 15 she demonstrated with the farm workers of Cesar Chavez and went to jail for one last time. The old lady's picture in the papers made almost too pat a portrait of a martyr...
DIED. Emma Bugbee, 93, suffragist and onetime high school teacher of Greek who broke through the barriers excluding women from city rooms in the early 1900s to become a reporter for the New York Herald, later the New York Herald Tribune; in Warwick, R.I. During her 56-year career, Bugbee was especially noted for her intimate coverage of Eleanor Roosevelt, who held her own press conferences for female journalists, banned from the all-male presidential briefings...
...overnight victory. In 1900 Suffragist Elizabeth Cohen was the only woman delegate at the Democratic Convention. By 1968 the number of women delegates had risen to only...
Equality continues to elude poor Susan B. Anthony. The Government honored the suffragist leader with a $1 coin last summer, and critics have not stopped sneering. "The Edsel of coins," said some. Of the 758 million coins that were minted, only about 270 million have been put into circulation. The rest are piled up in banks and the U.S. Mint...
...coin will be jingling in Americans' pockets and purses beginning this week, or so the Treasury Department hopes. The coin is an eleven-sided dollar bearing a likeness of Susan B. Anthony, the 19th century suffragist leader, whose drive for women's rights at the ballot box led to the enactment in 1920, 14 years after her death, of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the vote nationwide...