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.
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