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Alexandria Celebrates Women: The art of protest
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Two hundred years ago, an American woman’s creative expression had to be pretty and practical. Restricted by society, women...
City honors suffragists’ fight with new historic marker
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
The city and local women’s organization Alexandria Celebrates Women came together on Aug. 26 to dedicate a historic marker to...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: Suffragists struggle against brutality in fight for voting...
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
When American suffragists were arrested outside the White House 104 years ago and sentenced for imprisonment in nearby Occoquan,...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: “A loathsome place”
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
More than 150 years ago, in an age when most women were expected to “remember their place,” two women...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: The story of Julia Johns, community pioneer
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
The daughter of Julianna Johnson and Episcopal bishop John Johns, Julia Johns was in her early 30s when she...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: Extraordinary women in extraordinary times
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Alexandria women have played a prominent role in helping the city survive a history of contagious disease outbreaks. Here...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: Honoring Alexandria’s women on the front lines
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Whether caring for the sick and wounded during the American Civil War, helping during the 1918 influenza pandemic or...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: A tale of four sisters
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Try to imagine being captured from an overloaded boat on open water and sold to a notorious Alexandria slave...
Women in state and federal office
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
The next United States Presidential Inauguration is slated to look a bit different. For the first time in the...
Women: A strong political force
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
As we celebrate this centennial year of the American woman’s right to vote, we find ourselves a few short...
