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And there is no memory more inconvenient to the American project than that of Black women who remember everything: slavery, segregation, the betrayals of the suffragettes, the sidelining during Civil Rights, and now, the erasure from intellectual leadership.
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Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
American women have long used quilts to send messages to lawmakers, from abolitionists and suffragettes to the AIDS Memorial quilt.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Beyond her pioneering achievements behind the wheel, Levitt was also an inventor, a royal driving instructor, a suffragette and an outspoken writer.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 23 Apr. 2025
Shaina Taub’s musical chronicles the rise of the suffragette movement to gain voting rights for women.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
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Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
American women have long used quilts to send messages to lawmakers, from abolitionists and suffragettes to the AIDS Memorial quilt.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Beyond her pioneering achievements behind the wheel, Levitt was also an inventor, a royal driving instructor, a suffragette and an outspoken writer.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 23 Apr. 2025
Shaina Taub’s musical chronicles the rise of the suffragette movement to gain voting rights for women.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Suffragette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffragette. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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suffragette
noun
suf·frag·ette
ˌsəf-ri-ˈjet 
: a woman who supported voting rights for women when women were not allowed to vote
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