Long Island Suffrage Movement

"Edna Kearns worked as a suffrage editor for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and a columnist for many New York metropolitan newspapers. She was active in Long Island suffrage clubs, wrote and distributed press releases for local and state suffrage campaigns, and became a congressional representative for Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party on Long Island in the campaign for the 19th amendment. The story of the “Spirit of 1776” horse-drawn wagon used by Edna Kearns to organize on Long Island and participate in NYC suffrage parades received newspaper coverage, including in the New York Times, Long Island and other metropolitan papers."

from "Suffrage History: Long Island’s Three Wagon Women" by Marguerite Kearns 

Suffrage History: Long Island’s Three Wagon Women

By Marguerite Kearns - See more at: http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2014/04/09/suffrage-history-long-islands-three-wagon-women/#sthash.Vqv3SBfH.dpu

Edna Kearns worked as a suffrage editor for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and a columnist for many New York metropolitan newspapers. She was active in Long Island suffrage clubs, wrote and distributed press releases for local and state suffrage campaigns, and became a congressional representative for Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party on Long Island in the campaign for the 19th amendment. The story of the “Spirit of 1776” horse-drawn wagon used by Edna Kearns to organize on Long Island and participate in NYC suffrage parades received newspaper coverage, including in the New York Times, Long Island and other metropolitan papers. - See more at: http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2014/04/09/suffrage-history-long-islands-three-wagon-women/#sthash.Vqv3SBfH.dpuf

Edna Kearns worked as a suffrage editor for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and a columnist for many New York metropolitan newspapers. She was active in Long Island suffrage clubs, wrote and distributed press releases for local and state suffrage campaigns, and became a congressional representative for Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party on Long Island in the campaign for the 19th amendment. The story of the “Spirit of 1776” horse-drawn wagon used by Edna Kearns to organize on Long Island and participate in NYC suffrage parades received newspaper coverage, including in the New York Times, Long Island and other metropolitan papers. - See more at: http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2014/04/09/suffrage-history-long-islands-three-wagon-women/#sthash.Vqv3SBfH.dpuf

Edna Kearns worked as a suffrage editor for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and a columnist for many New York metropolitan newspapers. She was active in Long Island suffrage clubs, wrote and distributed press releases for local and state suffrage campaigns, and became a congressional representative for Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party on Long Island in the campaign for the 19th amendment. The story of the “Spirit of 1776” horse-drawn wagon used by Edna Kearns to organize on Long Island and participate in NYC suffrage parades received newspaper coverage, including in the New York Times, Long Island and other metropolitan papers. - See more at: http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2014/04/09/suffrage-history-long-islands-three-wagon-women/#sthash.Vqv3SBfH.dpuf