![]() in 1917 in support of suffrage activists picketing the White House.īeard authored a number of works on history with her husband. ![]() In the course of this work, Beard worked closely with suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Barns, organized women’s suffrage parades and rallies, pushed for intersectionality in the suffrage movement, testified before Congress in 1914, and led a delegation to Washington, D.C. She was active in the New York Women’s Trade Union League, the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, the New York City Suffrage Party, and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (later the National Woman’s Party), where she edited the weekly magazine, The Suffragist. After two years, Mary ceased her studies to focus on the women’s suffrage movement. ![]() In 1893, sixteen year-old Mary Ritter enrolled at DePauw University where she earned a bachelor of philosophy degree and met Charles Austin Beard, who she would later marry (and with whom she would co-author a number of books).īy 1902, the Beards (and their first child) had settled in New Yok City, where they both enrolled as graduate students in the School of Political Science at Columbia University. ![]()
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