{"title":"Tea Towel","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"19th-amendment-heroines-tea-towel","title":"19th Amendment Heroines Tea Towel","description":"It was what gave women the right to vote in the United States: \"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.\" Thus runs the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1919. It shouldn't be forgotten, of course, that in many parts of the US, black women (and men for that matter) still had a long way to go before they would be allowed to vote without hindrance. The 19th Amendment was a start in the process of enfranchisement, however. And some of the brave souls and pioneers whose fearless campaigning led up to this epoch-making advance are celebrated in our 19th Amendment Heroines tea towel.","brand":"Radical Tea Towel North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40522514038873,"sku":"T0455","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0018\/2675\/0519\/products\/870bf4ab76f74cb422ccc159bb042a0cdb973cc5ff181966c54b85eabdbeb1db.png?v=1689031295"},{"product_id":"rosa-parks-tea-towel","title":"Rosa Parks Tea Towel","description":"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. It is a Thursday evening in December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. After a long day of work as a seamstress, Rosa Parks boards a city bus to go home. She walks past the first few rows of seats marked;Whites Only. It is against the law for her, as an African American, to sit in these. She sits in the middle of the bus, where she is permitted to sit as long as no white person is standing. This is a deeply racist, segregated society.","brand":"Radical Tea Towel North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40522517348441,"sku":"T0170","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0018\/2675\/0519\/products\/c852a033887b6bc0aa2291bc6ea614a6a6f25af8c73b187fc579ed682c3a9a2d.png?v=1689032039"},{"product_id":"sojourner-truth-tea-towel","title":"Sojourner Truth Tea Towel","description":"I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? This is what Sojourner Truth asked the audience at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851 during her speech, Aint I a woman?. This impromptu address, where she challenged prevailing notions of racial and gender inferiority and demanded equal human rights for all women and for all blacks, became her best-known speech and was widely disseminated. At a time were advocating for women and African Americans were dangerous and challenging enough, and being one was even harder, her words were a truly radical act. In fact, her whole life was remarkable. Born into slavery and sold at the age of nine, Truth was sold three times and had five children before she escaped with her infant daughter to a nearby abolitionist family in 1826.","brand":"Radical Tea Towel North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40522517381209,"sku":"T0308","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0018\/2675\/0519\/products\/cfbdd78fd11c5204ba74cd263341575b0b054c126de1026d0b16899702d5e830.png?v=1689032041"},{"product_id":"bugler-girl-tea-towel","title":"Bugler Girl Tea Towel","description":"The striking design on this radical tea towel is taken from a vintage 1908 poster design by Caroline Marsh Watts. It features a girl marching with a bugle, an instrument historically used to relay instructions during battle. The Bugler Girl certainly trumpeted her battle message loud and clear: against injustice, for equality. She came to be a figure which represented the suffrage movement in the ongoing struggle for the vote in early twentieth century Britain. We see these same efforts by the Bugler Girls of today: the ones who sign petitions, the ones who protest, the ones who march, the ones who persist. We now have more figures than ever to represent our feminist values. Dont throw in the (tea) towel, keep the list growing: let this feminist gift serve as a reminder to speak out.","brand":"Radical Tea Towel North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40648243216473,"sku":"T0088","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0018\/2675\/0519\/products\/1d71986249fabca4c5e0d019dafea6503642ca4ff4f1805b24cd96039f8ccca7.png?v=1698059356"},{"product_id":"washington-dc-suffrage-tea-towel","title":"Washington DC Suffrage Tea Towel","description":"The artwork on this radical tea towel captures an inspiring moment of feminist history: the;Woman Suffrage Procession, the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C., organised by suffragist Alice Paul. On March 3rd, 1913, the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, thousands of suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue;in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded. A century and a bit later, in a worldwide Women's March on January 21st, 2017 (in light of another presidential inauguration) feminists in all seven continents took to the streets again, this time in their millions. They, too, marched for women\u0026amp; rights over their bodies, over their narratives, over their humanity.","brand":"Radical Tea Towel North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40648243282009,"sku":"T0328","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0018\/2675\/0519\/products\/e64fec09bc877a04a34e9d0ad202cb019fa636a2170553bc0f84a85088c5abff.png?v=1698059361"},{"product_id":"empire-state-committee-votes-for-women-tea-towel","title":"Empire State Committee Votes for Women Tea Towel","description":"Women \u0026amp; suffrage was achieved fully across the US in 1920, but individual states had been making moves much before then. In 1913, the Empire State Campaign Committee was formed as a coalition of women\u0026amp; suffrage organizations. Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, the committee aimed to bring together women\u0026amp; movements from across New York in an effort to win the vote for women there in 1915. Although this referendum was defeated, it was eventually passed two years later. Catt was later a leading figure in pressuring Congress to pass country-wide suffrage via the 19thamendment in 1920, becoming one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the 20thcentury. This striking design is by Francis Luis Mora, originally from Uruguay but who grew up in New York. He traveled to Spain, where he was influenced by the Spanish masters.","brand":"Radical Tea Towel North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40648243413081,"sku":"T0412","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0018\/2675\/0519\/products\/160e289f93cb197214be734f6e8f7ff58f2f4499fac19786355ca5dad74dff98.png?v=1698059368"}],"url":"https:\/\/1920merch.com\/collections\/tea-towel.oembed","provider":"1920 Merch Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}