Annie L. Diggs

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Overview

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Annie LePorte Diggs born London, Ontario, Canada February 22, 1848 (d. 1916). Radical Kansas Populist reformer; editor, orator, poet; suffragist; opposed US imperialism; delegate to Universal Peace Conference, Rouen, 1903.

Quotations

“Little Brown Brothers across the sea,
Running your race for liberty
Here’s to you.
We've been there ourselves”

(“Little Brown Brother”, 1899, Liberty Poems, p. 11: photo timetoast)