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Lessons From My Quaker Ancestors About Equality

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Diane Garrett Given the misogyny on open display in our nation’s capital, and sordid revelations of the #MeToo era, it’s not unreasonable to question how much progress we have really made since U.S.

women got the right to vote 100 years ago. Revisiting the battle helps provide the long view.My grandfather always told me I had suffragette ancestors, but that was just part of my hazy Quaker heritage until I began researching a Variety story about women’s suffrage and learned that my great-great-grandmother was president of the Women’s Suffrage League of Swarthmore, Pa., during the 1890s.

Among saved mementos in my brother’s possession: a program for a Suffrage Sociable at her house and newspaper clippings from her lifetime.

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