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This has been true of the left, from suffragists to civil-rights activists, and of the right, down to the Tea Party that began during Obama’s first term, protesting both the bank bailouts and the Affordable Care Act.
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Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Four people dominate the narrative: Lincoln, the suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and the author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.
—Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2025
In a letter written to then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1936, Borglum addressed the idea after proposals were made to add the face of suffragist Susan B. Anthony to the monument.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
Even before Mount Rushmore was completed, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt advocated for including suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
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Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Four people dominate the narrative: Lincoln, the suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and the author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.
—Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2025
In a letter written to then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1936, Borglum addressed the idea after proposals were made to add the face of suffragist Susan B. Anthony to the monument.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
Even before Mount Rushmore was completed, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt advocated for including suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
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suffragist
noun
suf·frag·ist
ˈsəf-ri-jəst 
: a person who supports extending voting rights especially to women
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