Rose Schneiderman, Clara Lemlich, and Leonora O’Reilly are not household names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but these working-class suffragists were indispensable to winning women’s right to vote in New York state in 1917.
- October 25, 2013Historian Peter Dreier explains why Cheng is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America.