Although women gained the right to vote in 1920, they had to push for equal rights when it came to jury duty. The new voting privilege did not automatically allow them to sit on juries or hold office in many places. The Baltimore Sun reported: “Merely because she may help decide who shall be elected…
Votes for Women in Salem County
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,…
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…
The People’s View: Constructing History through Collective Memory
The People’s View: Constructing History through Collective memory is an article published by the San Fransisco Musem of Modern Art in April 2018. _______ Mike Dixon first met Rein Jelle Terpstra in a bowling alley parking lot in Elkton, Maryland, in 2015. Terpstra, an artist from the Netherlands interested in the connections between perception and…