My mom brought me along
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.
Emmeline Pankhurst, organizer of the UK suffrage movement
AS I WAS THINKING OF MY MOM, who died last week at age 85, I wanted to find some way to open this message that would honor her guidance and force in my…