Post by Swamp Gas on Mar 7, 2010 10:19:14 GMT -5
I wonder what proto-Right Wingers like Alex Jones, Henry Makow, David Icke, and Jeff Rense think of this. After all, the CIA wasn't thought of yet, so Alice Paul was not working for them like these screwballs think the woman's right's movement was.
Alice Paul inducted into NJ hall of fame alongside historic nemesis Woodrow Wilson
By Vicki Hyman/The Star-Ledger
March 07, 2010, 5:57AM
alice-paul-nj-hall-of-fame.JPGAP Photo/Smithsonian Institute of American History National History/Alice Paul InstituteSuffragist Alice Paul of Mount Laurel, N.J., shown in this undated photo, will be inducted into the NJ Hall of Fame.
For most of the 20th century, women’s suffrage leader Alice Paul was sidelined in history books in favor of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, probably because Paul’s methods — hunger strikes, picketing the White House — were considered radical for the time.
"She was effectively written out of history," said Rhonda DiMascio, the president of the Alice Paul Institute, which preserves Paulsdale, her family home in Mount Laurel,
Ironically, Paul will be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame this year alongside her onetime nemesis, Woodrow Wilson. The former New Jersey governor, Princeton president and U.S. president initially opposed the women’s right-to-vote movement and was angered by Paul and the White House picketers, who were arrested, beaten and force-fed.
The heightened profile of Paul (who was featured in HBO’s "Iron-Jawed Angels" in 2004) is due in no small part to the Alice Paul Institute, which protected Paulsdale from development and helped spearhead a movement to recognize sites across New Jersey where women helped shaped history.
In 2004, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to create a Women’s Heritage Trail, which emerged from a conference on women and historic preservation a decade earlier. Backed by what was then called the Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, along with the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office and Preservation New Jersey, the trail gained momentum in 1999 when Sen. Diane Allen and Assemblywoman Rose Heck won funding for a survey of historic sites statewide.
Some of the sites are storied, such as Monmouth Battlefield State Park, where Mary Hayes pitched in during the Revolutionary War as an artillery loader, earning the nickname Molly Pitcher. Some are regional treasures, less known outside New Jersey, such as Historic Whitesbog Village, where Elizabeth Coleman White first cultivated the blueberry in 1916.
And there are many more fascinating if little-known tales of nerve and initiative from women integral to the agricultural, industrial, religious and domestic history of the state — even, if in a small way, to the existence of the United States itself.
Molly Pitcher is a household name, but Rebecca Stillwell isn’t. The wife of an American soldier, Stillwell was at home near the naval base at Beesley’s Point, in Upper Township, Cape May County, in 1777 when she spotted British barges on the Egg Harbor River. Her husband and his unit were fighting elsewhere, so Stillwell set off the cannon and sent the British ships back to sea.
The Mount Pisgah AME Church in Lawnside Borough, Camden County, is where pastor’s wife Jarena Lee won special permission in the early 1800s to "exhort" the flock after her husband’s sermon. She became a traveling evangelical, penned a spiritual autobiography, and is believed to have been the first official African-American woman preacher in the AME Church.
The imposing red brick building at 74 Lexington Ave. in Bayonne, now an apartment building for seniors, was once the Maidenform factory, where former dressmakers Ida Rosenthal and Enid Bissett built an empire out of "foundation garments" in the 1920s and 1930s.
Much of the trail is built on the work of the Women’s Project of New Jersey, now disbanded. The project published the reference volume "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women" in 1990.
"It completes our understanding of our history," said Dorothy Guzzo, the executive director of the New Jersey Historic Trust, who helped develop the trail. "If you think about early times, women didn’t own property, women didn’t write in the first 100 years. Unless you actively go out and research and find history, you won’t get this in the standard texts."
Alice Paul inducted into NJ hall of fame alongside historic nemesis Woodrow Wilson
By Vicki Hyman/The Star-Ledger
March 07, 2010, 5:57AM
alice-paul-nj-hall-of-fame.JPGAP Photo/Smithsonian Institute of American History National History/Alice Paul InstituteSuffragist Alice Paul of Mount Laurel, N.J., shown in this undated photo, will be inducted into the NJ Hall of Fame.
For most of the 20th century, women’s suffrage leader Alice Paul was sidelined in history books in favor of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, probably because Paul’s methods — hunger strikes, picketing the White House — were considered radical for the time.
"She was effectively written out of history," said Rhonda DiMascio, the president of the Alice Paul Institute, which preserves Paulsdale, her family home in Mount Laurel,
Ironically, Paul will be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame this year alongside her onetime nemesis, Woodrow Wilson. The former New Jersey governor, Princeton president and U.S. president initially opposed the women’s right-to-vote movement and was angered by Paul and the White House picketers, who were arrested, beaten and force-fed.
The heightened profile of Paul (who was featured in HBO’s "Iron-Jawed Angels" in 2004) is due in no small part to the Alice Paul Institute, which protected Paulsdale from development and helped spearhead a movement to recognize sites across New Jersey where women helped shaped history.
In 2004, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to create a Women’s Heritage Trail, which emerged from a conference on women and historic preservation a decade earlier. Backed by what was then called the Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, along with the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office and Preservation New Jersey, the trail gained momentum in 1999 when Sen. Diane Allen and Assemblywoman Rose Heck won funding for a survey of historic sites statewide.
Some of the sites are storied, such as Monmouth Battlefield State Park, where Mary Hayes pitched in during the Revolutionary War as an artillery loader, earning the nickname Molly Pitcher. Some are regional treasures, less known outside New Jersey, such as Historic Whitesbog Village, where Elizabeth Coleman White first cultivated the blueberry in 1916.
And there are many more fascinating if little-known tales of nerve and initiative from women integral to the agricultural, industrial, religious and domestic history of the state — even, if in a small way, to the existence of the United States itself.
Molly Pitcher is a household name, but Rebecca Stillwell isn’t. The wife of an American soldier, Stillwell was at home near the naval base at Beesley’s Point, in Upper Township, Cape May County, in 1777 when she spotted British barges on the Egg Harbor River. Her husband and his unit were fighting elsewhere, so Stillwell set off the cannon and sent the British ships back to sea.
The Mount Pisgah AME Church in Lawnside Borough, Camden County, is where pastor’s wife Jarena Lee won special permission in the early 1800s to "exhort" the flock after her husband’s sermon. She became a traveling evangelical, penned a spiritual autobiography, and is believed to have been the first official African-American woman preacher in the AME Church.
The imposing red brick building at 74 Lexington Ave. in Bayonne, now an apartment building for seniors, was once the Maidenform factory, where former dressmakers Ida Rosenthal and Enid Bissett built an empire out of "foundation garments" in the 1920s and 1930s.
Much of the trail is built on the work of the Women’s Project of New Jersey, now disbanded. The project published the reference volume "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women" in 1990.
"It completes our understanding of our history," said Dorothy Guzzo, the executive director of the New Jersey Historic Trust, who helped develop the trail. "If you think about early times, women didn’t own property, women didn’t write in the first 100 years. Unless you actively go out and research and find history, you won’t get this in the standard texts."