Suffragists put up a poster in Long Branch, 1915. Photo from the Library of Congress in Remembering the Jersey Shore by Joe Czachowski, 2010.
Christabel Pankhurst. British protestor (for the vote.) From PBS doc. About 1905.
Riots and violence in London. Suffragists beaten and arrested. PBS.
By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor, Blogfinger.net. 2020
“Votes for women” activists were busy in the summer of 1915. These three were advertising a speech by activist Anna Howard Shaw whose biography The Story of a Pioneer”was published that year. Suffragists organized concerts, lectures, parades and even ball games from Keyport to Atlantic Highlands to Asbury Park.
Alice Paul, an American feminist, was born in Mt. Laurel, NJ (see Ocean Grover Mary Walton’s book about Alice Paul, available at the Comfort Zone).
If you watch the PBS special on the Suffragists, you will see Mary, former Blogfinger reporter, interviewed.
Alice Paul, a Jersey Girl and a feminist.
The Historical Society of Ocean Grove has a great deal of information about the women’s movements in OG.
SOUNDTRACK: COUNT BASIE AND TONY BENNETT—What is the world coming to?
Ray: No and no. But I’m told that there were hookers at the north end late in the last century. But no sign of those citizens lately and they were independent of the CMA. For more details about the feminists in OG, go to the Historical Society.
You might be interested to know that we have a female panhandler in the Grove. She doesn’t ask for spare change, she asks for twenty dollar bills.
Addendum: 1/26. There now is a female CMA president, but does anyone know her name?
I’ve always wondered about this. Was the women’s movement in OG associated with the Methodist church or was it secular? Also wondering: Have there ever been any women presidents of the CMA?