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Campaign Steering Committee Welcomes New Members, Tours Site
Thursday, May 08, 2008
As the Closer to Equality capital campaign continues to make progress raising critical funds needed to build and open the Stevens and Smith Historic Site, we're pleased to announce the expansion of our project Steering Committee. For several years, our core group of volunteers has been quietly working to assure project success. Many thanks to Chair Margot Brubaker, Reverend Louis Butcher, Jr., HPT past president Rita Byrne, HPT current president Bill Musante and Judy Ware.
Joining this stalwart group now as we expand our leadership and fundraising reach are Teddie Chairsell, Darryl Gordon, Jeff LeFevre, Alice Sanders and Suzanne Woodard. Darryl comes to us from High Industries, where he serves as Corporate Director of Human Resources. Jeff,…read moreHistoric Candidacies
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
The 2008 Pennsylvania Primary is over and as the media moves on to Indiana and North Carolina they continue to define only half of the Democratic candidacy as historic. How little they understand the history they are repeating.
For much of the 19th century the women’s suffrage movement was tied to the movement to abolish slavery. Universal Suffrage required, first, that the enslaved be emancipated and then all citizens be enfranchised. Such was the movement supported by many women and men like Frederick Douglass.
When the Emancipation Proclamation was followed in 1865 by a Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery within the United States, the success of both abolition and women’s suffrage movements seemed at…read more
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