Lucretia Mott

Oprah and Lucretia: Friends that Go Back a Long Way

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: John Quincy Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oprah Winfrey, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Media News
Jamie Stiehm

Suddenly I heard it: the Quaker in Oprah. The emphasis on a light inside each of us is the central Quaker concept of the way God works. Oprah's theology in a kind of a mass media sermon seemed to be a fresh way of putting those things.

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The Women's Deliberation Movement

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abigail Adams, 19th-Amendment, Sewell-Belmont House and Museum, H. J. Res 61, Carolyn Maloney, Equal Rights Amendment, 19th Amendment, Women's Equality, Judy Biggert, National Women's Party, Mount Holyoke College, Equal-Rights-Amendment, Sojourner Truth, 1848 Women's Congress, Lucretia Mott, 28th Amendment, Era, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Adams, Women's Rights Movement, Susan B. Anthony, Sewell-Belmont House, Alice Paul, Women's Liberation, Politics News
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds

In this era, we can no longer afford for deliberation, defined as "leisureliness of movement or action; slowness" to define us as women.

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All Over the Country, Women in Politics Make a Difference

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Riley, Al Gore, Mark Sanford, Hillary Clinton, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

This is a diverse country, and getting elected in some states is much harder than in others, but the message has to continue to be the same -- women can and must make a difference.

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Sex and Voting

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, 19th Amendment, Universal Suffrage, Women's Suffrage, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nineteenth Amendment, Slavery, Abigail Adams, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.

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