Marches and Protestors in the Women's Rights Movement

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Title

Marches and Protestors in the Women's Rights Movement

Subject

Marches and Protestors in the Women's Rights Movement, their signs why they were protesting

Description

Need description of collection why it was included and what ties images together

Creator

Lydia Biallas

Date

1868-1918

Language

English

Collection Items

Officers of the National Women's Party
This a photograph of Alice Paul and other women of the Women's Rights Movement, specifically the National Women's Party. Digitized photograph. 1920. The nineteenth Amendment will be passed that same year. Women would not have wanted to support…

Sewing stars on suffrage flag
Alice Paul is sewing a star on a flag to represent another state ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment. 4 x 5 in or smaller. I negative: glass. 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. This flag represents how closely women followed the…

New York Suffragettes Parade 1913
Women marching in a parade for Suffrage. Digitized photo. 1913. The year before World War I, most women did not work outside their home. There were many branches of the National American Women Suffrage Association in nearly all the states in the…

Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [Holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]
A woman protesting the treatment of women who are suffrage prisoners. 4.25 x 7 in. 1917. This was taken the year before World War I ended. This shows the treatment of the women who wanted their suffrage, they were treated as if they were criminals…

["Silent Sentinel" Alison Turnbull Hopkins at the White House on New Jersey Day.]
A Photograph of a women standing outside the White House with a banner demanding that Woodrow Wilson give women suffrage. 5x 7 in. Digitized photograph. 1917. The year before the end of World War I and soon after the Nineteenth Amendment giving…

[Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's Opposition to Woman Suffrage, October 1916]
Women were protesting President Wilson because he opposed women's suffrage. 8.5 x 11.5 in. Digitized Photograph. 1916. World War I has started but the United States of America has not joined the war yet. Before World War I the President was…

[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Statue in Washington, D.C.]
Women are burning a speech by President Wilson to protest his stance on women's suffrage. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1918. World War I is almost over, and in two years the Nineteenth Amendment will be ratified giving women the right to…

Bertha Moller, left, and Bertha Arnold hold party banner which was held at the Senate Office Building, ca. 1917.
Women holding senators accountable for keeping women from voting. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will enter it soon. Women will receive suffrage in three years. Women are not only fighting…

Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison
Women arrested for wanting to vote are released from prison. 4 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will do so later that year. Women were arrested because they wanted to vote, one of the women in…
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