THE TURNING POINT SUFFRAGIST MEMORIAL, LORTON, MEMORIAL CONTINUED...

You can read about the Memorial at this link.

I am publishing snippets of information from various places, and you can click on their title to get to that particular website. 

  Pieces of History, a blog from The National Archives.

What is Suffrage? 

This was written on May 14th, 2019, by Jesse Kratz

"This year we mark the 100th anniversary of the woman suffrage amendment, and as it turns out, a lot of people don't really know what "suffrage" means because it's mostly fallen out of common usage.  The term has nothing to do with suffering but instead derives from the Latin word "suffragium," meaning the right or privilege to vote. In the United States, it is commonly associated with the l9th and early 20th century voting rights movements."

Did You Know? Suffragist v Suffragette?

An Article from the National Park Service.

"Did you know there is a difference between a suffragist and a suffragette?

Although we often see suffragist and suffragette used as though they mean the same thing, their historical meanings are quite different.

The terms suffrage and enfranchisement mean having the right to vote. Suffragists are people who advocate for enfranchisement. After African American men got the vote in 1870 with the passage of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, "suffrage" referred primarily to women's suffrage (though there were many other groups who did not have access to the ballot).

The battle for woman's suffrage was in full force in both Britain and the United States in the early 1900s. Reporters took sides and in 1908 a British reporter used the word "suffragette" to mock those fighting for women's right to vote.  The suffix "-ette" is used to refer to something small or diminutive, and the reporter used it to minimize the work of the British suffragists.

Some women in Britain embraced the term suffragette, a way of reclaiming it from its original derogatory use. In the United States, however, the term suffragette was seen as an offensive term and not embraced by the suffrage movement. Instead, it was wielded by anti-suffragists in their fight to deny women in America the right to vote."

and from 

Time Magazine

"The 'ette' suffix is a string of letters that came across the Channel - where the French still use it to denote something that is diminutive - and got absorbed into British English, before being shipped off to Americans in the New World. Over the centuries 'ett' has become a marker of things that are short or smaller-than-usual (cigarette = small cigar; roulette = small wheel), feminine and female "jockette = a female jockey; hackette = a female journalist), as well as imitative and inferior (leatherette = imitation leather; poetette = a young or minor poet).”

Getting back to the Memorial, the iron railings have an interesting story. The photo below, along with the information, came from the sign in front of the railings.

Here's the sign as a whole.

I cropped the part under 'Silent for Suffrage' so that it can be read more easily. You might want to enlarge for even more detail.

A close-up of the top part of the fence that Gregg took.

I will end my post here and will share the third and final part next week. My computer time will be a bit limited and as I mentioned before, I don't want to rush such an important part of our history. I have had my Friday to Monday posts already set up.

I hope you found this interesting. There is a wealth of information out on the internet, and I feel like I went down another rabbit hole, so to speak.