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The pioneers of suffrage!
Lucretia Mott
Carrie Chapman Catt
Anna Howard Shaw
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
March 1913: Beatrice Forbes and Roberta Hale hold open air meetings to prepare for and advertise for the suffrage parade.
March 3, 1913: The day before Wilson’s inaugration – Inez Milholland leads a parade of about 5000 suffragists.
"Scene of Memorial Service-Statuary Hall, The Capitol," December 25, 1916, honoring suffragist
Inez Milholland Boissevain. (© Harris and Ewing)
1917: Suffrage pickets who served 60 days in the workhouse at Occoquan, protesting for Alice Paul’s release.
Alice Paul and members celebrate the unfurling of a banner in front of National Woman’s Party headquarters.
To protest Wilson’s refusal to push for a Constitutional amendment backing suffrage, suffragists staged a daily picket line at the White House beginning in 1917. Once the US entered World War I, the protestors were seen as an embarrassment and had them arrested.
April, 1917: Suffrage pickets at the gates of Congress, the day after Wilson asked Congress to declare war.
League of Women Voters Founder Carrie Chapman Catt (center, in white) leads a suffragist march in New York City in 1917.
Tennessee, 1920: Suffrage Ratification: At left, Banks Turner, whose vote prevented the tabling of the suffrage resolution. At right in back, Harry Burn who gave the last needed vote for ratification.
1920s: Mrs. Harvey Wiley, on phone, Anita Pollitzer, Alice Paul, and unknown woman making phone calls for the Equal Rights Amendment.
1920: Alice Paul toasts banner in front of National Woman’s Party headquarters to commemorate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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