Winning the right to vote alongside male counterparts didn’t come easy for New Jersey women. The 1776 New Jersey Constitution had enfranchised men and women who were worth fifty pounds. But, this brief period of inclusivity came to an end in 1807 when the Assembly passed a law limiting suffrage to white male taxpayers ((Lewis,…
Month: November 2019
Wilmington University Professor Michael Dixon
Wilmington University History adjunct Michael Dixon teaches students how to conduct investigations into a well-hidden past. In Michael Dixon’s case, he was indeed made by history. For him, even from childhood, history has been and continues to be his life. But not history of the high and mighty, though Dixon, an author, writer, speaker and…