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Mar. 1st, 2004
Happy Saint David's Day!
Mar. 1st, 2004 01:15 pm
| Or as it is elsewhere said, 'Hapus Dydd Dewi Sant!' Today is the Welsh national saint's day. As you can tell by the lack of dye in your local river, and the lack of food colouring in your local beer, St. David hasn't had anywhere near as much attention as St. Patrick (which is funny, because St. Patrick was born in what would become Wales!). I won't go into the history of it (stop that cheering!), but the symbols for the day, like Patrick's shamrock, are the leek and the daffodil -- the leek at least in part because it's green and white like the Welsh flag. Today is also Sir Anthony Hopkin's wedding anniversary, which wedding he did properly surrounded by daffodils; and it'll be the anniversary for Sirius and Medeni, likewise surrounded by daffodils. Cymru am byth, after all. Guests may quietly attend their exchanging of vows in the Chapel at Castell Seren-Ci. The ceremony is planned for around 18:00 Pacific (21:00 Eastern, 01:00 Greenwich). Gifts will be, of course, warmly appreciated but hardly 'necessary'. The marriage has already been registered at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small} marry_a_ljuser. The thought was that the Ministry of Magic is unlikely to surf LiveJournal much....    |
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amaterasu!
Women's History Month, 2004
Mar. 1st, 2004 01:33 pm.
As I said, I'm going to post some contributions towards remembering American women who've made various kinds of contributions to the country, the culture and the planet as a whole. As Canada observes in October, I figured I'd make it nationalist.
Anyone who'd like to add in, please -- comment away! Women who remind you of the efforts of the subject of the day, interesting additions to their history, anything you like. I'm not trying to be exhaustive, after all. :)
A note about organisation: I've come up with seven broad categories, four entries in each, to try to ensure some variety. Obviously, the categories are VERY broad, but we've only 31 days (and I've only got so much time!).
So, to start off with, the classic, symbolic American feminist:
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was born into an egalitarian Quaker family on February 15, 1820. Other than her father's conviction that his daughters should be as well-educated as his sons, the Anthony family also participated in the temperance and anti-slavery movements of the day. 1
At 29 years old Anthony herself became involved in abolitionism and then temperance. A friendship with Amelia Bloomer led to a meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was to become her lifelong partner in political organizing, especially for women's rights and woman suffrage.
Stanton, married and mother to a number of children, served as the writer and idea-person of the two, and Susan B. Anthony, never married, was more often the organizer and the one who traveled, spoke widely, and bore the brunt of antagonistic public opinion. 2
Together, they formed organizations and publications promoting female suffrage. Anthony was even arrested during a landmark protest challenging the idea that the Bill of Rights already supported women's right to vote. By 1871, she had already moved to Rochester, N.Y., her home town for the rest of her busy life. She registered to vote, but when she cast her vote on November 5, 1872, a pollwatcher from (ironic from a 20th-century viewpoint) the Democratic party challenged both Anthony's registration and her subsequent vote. United States Commissioner William C. Storrs acted upon the pollwatcher's complaint by issuing a warrant for Anthony's arrest on November 14. The warrant charged Anthony with voting in a federal election "without having a lawful right to vote and in violation of section 19 of an act of Congress" enacted in 1870, commonly called The Enforcement Act. The Enforcement Act carried a maximum penalty of $500 or three years imprisonment. 3
Although found guilty, Anthony refused to pay the fine and it remains outstanding today. The next few decades saw her fight at the state level for what eventually became the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing female American citizens the right to vote. Between speaking engagements, she also co-wrote History of Woman Suffrage with her long-time political partner Stanton.
She died in her Rochester home March 13, 1906, due to pneumonia and subsequent heart failure, busy with her personal mission to the very end -- her last public words were "Failure is impossible."
See also: Mary Stafford Anthony, Susan's younger sister who also taught, signed the 'Declaration of Sentiments' at the Rochester meeting after the Seneca Falls Convention, also voted in 1872 and became her sister's primary assistant and house-keeper.
April 2, 1827 - February 5, 1907
http://winningthevote.org/MAnthony.html
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/epitaph/14_3.stm
0 http://www.spacefem.com/feministoftheday/viewfem.php?id=62
1 Women in History. Susan Brownell Anthony biography. Created/Last modified: June 12 2003. Lakewood Public Library. Accessed: February 28 2004. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/anth-sus.htm.
2 http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blanthony.htm
3 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbaaccount.html
As I said, I'm going to post some contributions towards remembering American women who've made various kinds of contributions to the country, the culture and the planet as a whole. As Canada observes in October, I figured I'd make it nationalist.
Anyone who'd like to add in, please -- comment away! Women who remind you of the efforts of the subject of the day, interesting additions to their history, anything you like. I'm not trying to be exhaustive, after all. :)
A note about organisation: I've come up with seven broad categories, four entries in each, to try to ensure some variety. Obviously, the categories are VERY broad, but we've only 31 days (and I've only got so much time!).
So, to start off with, the classic, symbolic American feminist:
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was born into an egalitarian Quaker family on February 15, 1820. Other than her father's conviction that his daughters should be as well-educated as his sons, the Anthony family also participated in the temperance and anti-slavery movements of the day. 1
At 29 years old Anthony herself became involved in abolitionism and then temperance. A friendship with Amelia Bloomer led to a meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was to become her lifelong partner in political organizing, especially for women's rights and woman suffrage.
Stanton, married and mother to a number of children, served as the writer and idea-person of the two, and Susan B. Anthony, never married, was more often the organizer and the one who traveled, spoke widely, and bore the brunt of antagonistic public opinion. 2
Together, they formed organizations and publications promoting female suffrage. Anthony was even arrested during a landmark protest challenging the idea that the Bill of Rights already supported women's right to vote. By 1871, she had already moved to Rochester, N.Y., her home town for the rest of her busy life. She registered to vote, but when she cast her vote on November 5, 1872, a pollwatcher from (ironic from a 20th-century viewpoint) the Democratic party challenged both Anthony's registration and her subsequent vote. United States Commissioner William C. Storrs acted upon the pollwatcher's complaint by issuing a warrant for Anthony's arrest on November 14. The warrant charged Anthony with voting in a federal election "without having a lawful right to vote and in violation of section 19 of an act of Congress" enacted in 1870, commonly called The Enforcement Act. The Enforcement Act carried a maximum penalty of $500 or three years imprisonment. 3
Although found guilty, Anthony refused to pay the fine and it remains outstanding today. The next few decades saw her fight at the state level for what eventually became the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing female American citizens the right to vote. Between speaking engagements, she also co-wrote History of Woman Suffrage with her long-time political partner Stanton.
She died in her Rochester home March 13, 1906, due to pneumonia and subsequent heart failure, busy with her personal mission to the very end -- her last public words were "Failure is impossible."
See also: Mary Stafford Anthony, Susan's younger sister who also taught, signed the 'Declaration of Sentiments' at the Rochester meeting after the Seneca Falls Convention, also voted in 1872 and became her sister's primary assistant and house-keeper.
April 2, 1827 - February 5, 1907
http://winningthevote.org/MAnthony.html
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/epitaph/14_3.stm
0 http://www.spacefem.com/feministoftheday/viewfem.php?id=62
1 Women in History. Susan Brownell Anthony biography. Created/Last modified: June 12 2003. Lakewood Public Library. Accessed: February 28 2004. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/anth-sus.htm.
2 http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blanthony.htm
3 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbaaccount.html