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19 de jul. de 2024 · One of the most magnificent in the cemetery is the Belmont Mausoleum, the final resting place of Alva Erskine and Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont.
Hace 4 días · Alva and Oliver Belmont were two of the most vigorous members of the New York elite, and most people likely thought they would reign over their domains forever. But in 1908, that assumption ...
Hace 3 días · Alva Belmont, the multimillionaire socialite who founded the Political Equality League in 1909 to support pro-suffrage politicians in New York and helped integrate the suffrage movement in that state. Phoebe Burn, the mother of Harry T. Burn, the Tennessee legislator who cast the deciding vote for the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Hace 4 días · Mrs. Astor, the queen bee, ruled New York society. In fact, she was so well known that her calling cards only had three words: The Mrs. Astor. Alva Vanderbilt was a force in her own right....
19 de jul. de 2024 · His presidential museum sells replicas of the “Votes for Women” teapots, cups and saucers that Alva Vanderbilt Belmont placed before guests at Marble House, her Rhode Island “cottage ...
Hace 2 días · Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman ...
17 de jul. de 2024 · Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements.
