[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Statue in Washington, D.C.]

[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Statue in Washington, D.C.]

Women against President Wilson because of his position on Women's suffrage.

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 vote. The burning of President Wilson's speech shows how much they disagreed with his stance.

Harris and Ewing

Records of the National Women's Party

Library of Congress

September 16, 1918

Digitization of a photograph