Suffrage Hikes
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The Suffrage Hikes of 1912 to 1914 brought attention to the issue of women's suffrage. Florence Gertrude de Fonblanque organised the first from Edinburgh to London. Within months Rosalie Gardiner Jone
Elisabeth Freeman in 1913
Suffrage hikers in Newark, New Jersey, in 1913
Rosalie Gardiner Jones and Ida Craft
Suffrage hikers in Newark, New Jersey, in 1913
Elisabeth Freeman
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Elisabeth Freeman was a British-born American suffragist and civil rights activist, best known for her investigative report for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on the Ma
Suffrage Hikes
…days. The major participants of the hikes, and the ones who covered the entire distance, were reporter Emma Bugbee, Ida Craft (nicknamed The Colonel), Elisabeth Freeman, and Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who was known as The General. It began on Monday morning at 9:40 am, December 16, 1912, and left from the 242nd Street…
Freeman, circa 1910s
Elizabeth Freeman speaking at NAACP