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Learn more about how a parade through Baltimore on June 28, 1912 brought attention to the Maryland suffrage movement, in our latest library blog post. Miss Ida Baker Neepier led the parade dressed as Joan of Arc, “with her steel armor scintillating in the glare of the electric lights” she “waved her mailed hand from her seat on a show-white charger," according to the Baltimore Sun. Read the blog entry by clicking on the "Blogs" tab in our bio link. The blog post was written by the H. Furlong Baldwin's 2019/2020 Lord Baltimore Fellow. Look for an announcement in August about next year's fellowship, 2022/2023: mdhistory.org/library/fellowships-prizes Image: Joan of Arc in the Suffrage Parade, photograph by unidentified photographer, "Maryland Suffrage News," June 29, 1912, MAP.M414. H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture. #MarylandHistory #MDHistory #Parades #VotingRights #JoanofArc #WomensSuffrage #VotesforWomen #SuffrageParade #SuffrageMovement

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