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• Susan Ware, author of Why They Marched, argued in the Washington Post that black women, long sidelined and forgotten by white feminists and historians, must be returned to the center of the history of American women’s suffrage.
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April 10: School Is Her Refuge

ref • uge noun A condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble. If we want girls to succeed, we need to teach them the audacity to transgress. Through the lives of students at three very different schools, Sally A. Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement…