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Article: WOMEN'S VOICES.(EDITORIAL)(WISCONSIN DIARY)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- November 3, 2001
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Byline: Linda Brazill
While channel surfing the radio on the drive to work Friday, I caught a gospel group singing Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," a bracing change from Celine Dion's "God Bless America."
Maybe I like Howe's song more because I know it was all of a piece with her life. Howe was one of the most famous American women of her era -- a writer, social reformer and feminist who served as the first president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association.
At this moment in history it's worth remembering that after the carnage of America's Civil War, Howe called for an international gathering of women "to promote the ...