Puzzling Together Suffrage: Asian-American Suffragette’s Fight for the Big Picture
The grand mythology of suffrage begins in 1848 Seneca Falls, New York. Here, heroine Elizabeth Cady Stanton forms her origin story, quite literally declaring grievances against woman. Primary among them is a woman’s lack of the franchise, lack of wage opportunity, and paucity of educational advancement. Her call to arms is bolstered by the Coffin…