On this day, 20 January 1856, women’s rights activist Harriot Stanton Blatch was born in New York. Later travelling to England, she returned disapproving of the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s conservatism. She responded by forming the Equality League of Self Supporting Women, to reach out to the working class. 20,000 women workers in New York’s Lower East side: factory, laundry and garment workers joined and hold militant demonstrations.
We’ve produced a number of podcast episodes about radical women’s history. Check them out on your favourite podcast app or at https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/women/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1329338093918004/?type=3
On this day, 8 March 1917, thousands of housewives and women workers in St Petersburg, Russia defied union leaders’ appeals for calm and took to the streets against high prices and hunger, thus igniting the February Revolution. The following day, 200,000 workers joined them by striking, shouting slogans against the tsar and the war. Some military units began to join the workers, and by 15 March, tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. This is a fantastic article about the key role women played in the buildup to the revolution: https://ift.tt/2Hh3cBghttps://ift.tt/2HkL6li
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