An Unfinished Revolution

Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women's Rights

Marguerite Kearns (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

354 Seiten

2021
Excelsior Editions (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8332-0 (ISBN)

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The story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights through the lens of one family’s history.

Through the lens of one family's history, An Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women's rights in the United States. The book opens with ten-year-old Marguerite Kearns listening to her grandfather Wilmer's stories about how he met her grandmother Edna, a ninth-generation Quaker and ardent suffrage campaigner, and how he fell in love with her. Wilmer, who became a male suffrage activist himself, also shares the story of the "Spirit of 1776" suffrage campaign wagon that Edna and others used while organizing in New York State in 1913. After sitting for years in a Kearns family garage, the wagon is currently housed in the permanent collection of the New York State Museum as a prime artifact in the national suffrage movement.

As Marguerite grows older, she draws on a wide variety of sources—from family stories and photographs to archives and scholarly histories—to piece together the real-life narrative of her family. Profoundly changed in the process, she becomes an activist herself, and when she marches in a present-day women's march, she carries a photo of her grandparents participating in a 1914 women's march in New York. With the women's suffrage movement as the backdrop, this memoir and family history illuminates how activism passes from one generation to another—and how a horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon became a symbol of freedom and equality.

Marguerite Kearns grew up in the Philadelphia area learning about her family history. A former journalist and teacher, her award-winning writing has contributed to a support base for her storytelling. She lives in Northern New Mexico.

Contents
List of Illustrations
The Story Behind the Story

Part I

1. The March of the Women

2. Wilmer Meets Edna

3. Granddaddy Wilmer

4. "Dish Rags" and "She-Men"

5. An Unlikely Couple

6. "When Is Papa Coming Home?"

7. The Secret

8. "Don't Fall in Love with Curmudgeons"

9. The Spirit of 1776 Wagon

10. Getting to Know the Family on Edgar Allan Poe's Chairs

Part II

11. The Telephone Party Line

12. Just Friends

13. Dinner at Delmonico's

14. Many Women, Many Views

15. Learning about Interviewing

16. "Is It Always Like This?"

17. "Will Thee Marry Me?"

18. Rumblings at the Dinner Table

19. "Happy New Year to Thee and All"

20. First Chance to Be Alone

Looking Back: The Wedding

Part III

21. Charles, Angela, and the Wedding Scandal

22. Honeymoon in St. Louis

23. "I Am a Writer"

24. Civil War Orphan School

25. Sinking Spells

26. Holly, Mistletoe, and Evergreens

27. "It Is Awful. Awful."

Part IV

28. "Trust Me"

29. The Wagon in Woodstock

30. Uproar in Huntington

31. One Woman per Century

32. Sojourner Truth in the Hudson Valley

Looking Back: In Their Own Words

33. Pete Seeger's Aunt—Suffrage Activist Anita Pollitzer

34. Inez Milholland—US Suffrage Martyr

35. The Struggle Continues

Acknowledgments
Genealogy Chart
Timeline of the Spirit of 1776 Suffrage Wagon
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Excelsior Editions
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 105
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4384-8332-5 / 1438483325
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-8332-0 / 9781438483320
Zustand	Neuware