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Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 5 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 5

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Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Susan Pringle Frost, a mentor to the Pollitzer sisters, was the founder of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Anita Pollitzer went to work for that National American Women Suffrage Association...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 4 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 4

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Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In the early twentieth century, a trio of sisters from Charleston, SC, known as the Pollitzer sisters (Carrie, Mabel, and Anita) embraced the opportunities for social reform. The Pollitzers came from...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 3 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 3

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Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 2 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 2

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Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone. The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 1 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 1

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Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

South Carolina, a mostly rural state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was racially divided and impoverished after Reconstruction. Its economy was mainly agrarian, growing crops...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 5

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 4

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

The South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association was founded in Columbia in 1870, with Charlotte Rollin as the Chair. A charter is created and sent to Lucy Stone, one of the founders of the American...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 3

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

During this period, there were many people, including African Americans, who felt the issue of women’s suffrage was much less important than civil rights for Blacks. In the 1868 Constitutional...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 2

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Civil War brought an abrupt change to the Rollin Family, ending a period where, according to Frances Rollin, “free people of color were at the zenith of their prosperity”. The Rollin family’s...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 1

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Grades: 4 5 8 11

Frances Rollin was propelled into the national spotlight with the Pilot Boy steamship incident, in Charleston, South Carolina, where the captain refused her service due to the color of her skin...