The 19th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all women who…
ReadSenator Frank Brandegee of New London vehemently opposed progressive legislation at the national level, particularly when it came to the issue of women’s suffrage.
ReadAttorney General John H. Light made his pro-suffrage stance public at a time when such advocacy could still lead to criticism
ReadThis small enclave in the capital city’s west end became home to many of the 19th century’s most celebrated and creative personalities.
ReadIn the early 1900s consumers bought photographs, furniture, and books from a former minister who skillfully sold the fantasy of simpler times as an antidote to modern life.
ReadThese women from all walks of life had one thing in common: they had been jailed for demonstrating in support of women’s right to vote.
ReadThe voting booth and the shop floor were two important arenas in the fight for women’s equality.
ReadLong-time Bridgeport resident Olympia Brown was the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States and campaigned vigorously for women’s suffrage.
ReadThis Hartford suffragist and reformer fought for women’s rights in the first half of the 20th century.
ReadMary Townsend Seymour was a leading organizer, civil rights activist, suffragist, and so much more in Hartford during the early 20th century.
ReadAbigail and Julia Smith of Glastonbury (along with Isabella Beecher Hooker) fought for a woman’s right to speak at town meetings and have a say in government.
ReadSlavery remained in the Land of Steady Habits until 1848, and it was not quick to advance suffrage for African Americans, either.
ReadWithout formal training, Alice Washburn designed some of Connecticut’s most iconic Colonial Revival buildings of the early 20th century.
ReadSister to two of the most famous figures of the 19th century–Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher–Catharine Esther Beecher achieved fame in her own right as an educator, reformer, and writer.
ReadNo matter his field of endeavor—from automotive design and acoustics to wireless radio and aviation—this multitalented creator had a hand in key developments of the early 1900s.
ReadIn 1870, Connecticut ratified the 15th Amendment, but poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and other means of disenfranchising African Americans remained in place.
ReadOn July 12, 1918, Connecticut suffragists—men, women, and children—rallied in…
ReadThis skilled orator championed woman suffrage, temperance, and the cause of anti-slavery but scandal nearly derailed his career.
ReadVera Wilhelmine Buch Weisbord was a labor activist who helped organize trade unions and strikes that shaped the labor movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
ReadIn 1871, Celia Burleigh, a life-long activist and reformer, became…
ReadBy refusing to pay unfair taxes, these siblings became national symbols of discrimination suffered by women and of the struggle of the individual against government.
ReadIsabella Beecher was a suffragist and spiritualist who shunned traditional female roles while alienating large parts of her famous family during her brother’s adultery scandal.
ReadBlack churches, including the earliest ones in Connecticut, have long been at the forefront in the battle for social progress and equality.
ReadHaving escaped from slavery in Maryland, this accomplished pastor, publisher, and freedom fighter challenged racism wherever he found it, even within the ranks of the abolitionist movement and the ministry.
ReadOvershadowed by the famed oak, Joseph Wadsworth, “the hero of the Charter,” has become the Rodney Dangerfield of Connecticut history—he doesn’t get any respect—or much recognition.
ReadOn October 5, 1826, Elizabeth Jarvis was born in Hartford….
ReadRosamond Danielson was a respected suffragist, World War I worker, and philanthropist from Putnam Heights
ReadLyman Beecher was one of the most influential Protestant preachers of the 19th century, as well as father to some of the nation’s greatest preachers, writers, and social activists.
ReadIn the wake of a 1912 trolley campaign, the woman’s suffrage movement rapidly gained ground across Connecticut.
ReadFor a variety of reasons, the Eastons were one of New England’s most notable 19th-century African American families.
ReadAs Connecticut’s first female statewide elected official and first female Secretary of State, Sara Crawford broke barriers for women throughout her career.
ReadWriter and suffragist Mary Hall developed an interest in the law after hearing John Hooker speak at a suffragist convention. She studied under Hooker and became Connecticut’s first female attorney.
ReadBy linking disparate social and political movements of the early 20th century, activist Josephine Bennett was “intersectional” well before the term was invented.
ReadOne of the most popular actresses of the 20th century, Katharine Hepburn was born to prominent parents in Hartford. She lived much of her later life in Old Saybrook.
ReadAfter passage of the 19th Amendment, Elizabeth W. Coe of Waterbury argued that women should be granted the right to serve on jury panels.
ReadConnecticut’s Old State House is a memorial to many of the legislative advances made in Connecticut during the most formative years of the United States.
ReadToday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. First observed in…
ReadBest remembered for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” this Hartford author’s larger legacy is a life dedicated to women’s issues and social reform.
ReadAfter a decades-long struggle, women in Connecticut and across the US gained a say in government.
ReadOn July 3, 1860, Charlotte Anna Perkins (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)…
ReadThis bucolic oasis on Hartford’s western edge became home to great literary talents, social reformers, politicians, and other nationally-regarded luminaries of the mid-to-late 1800s.
ReadThe early years of the 20th century were a time of vigorous political and social reform.
ReadDuring the American Revolution, loyalists were common in Connecticut. Those sympathetic to the patriot cause helped provide for the Continental army.
ReadWith war’s end, suffrage advocates stepped up their campaign for equal rights.
ReadThe late 1800s witnessed significant challenges to Connecticut’s voting and taxation laws.
ReadFrom forging Revolutionary War ammunition to running newspapers, patenting new…
ReadIsabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907) Isabella Beecher Hooker was born in…
ReadToday it is the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (The Kate) but it began as the Old Saybrook Musical and Dramatic Club.
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