The Flame That Lit the Library Steps
The crowd had gathered before noon on that cold November afternoon in nineteen twenty-two. They came for the speeches—dozens of them, from men in stiff collars and women in cloche hats, all arguing about something called suffrage, which meant the right to vote, which meant the right to exist as citizens rather than decorations in other people's lives. Clara Bates stood on the third step of the...
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