The Suffrage Movement

In connection with Iron Jawed Angels

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: Washington, D.C. Suffrage Parade, mounted marshals.

March 3, 1913: Washington, D.C. Suffrage Parade, Mrs. Richard Burleson, Grand Marshal.

March 3, 1913: The day before Wilson’s inaugration – Inez Milholland leads a parade of about 5000 suffragists.

Inez Milholland

"Scene of Memorial Service-Statuary Hall, The Capitol," December 25, 1916, honoring suffragist

Inez Milholland Boissevain. (© Harris and Ewing)

May 9, 1914: Suffrage Parade

July 1914: Delaware Headquarters: State Chairman, Florence Bayard Hilles with the white hat.

1916: Congressional Campaign, National Woman’s Party activities in Colorado

1916: Congressional Campaign, National Woman’s Party activities in Colorado

Lucy Burns

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.

Message to President Wilson

Actual photograph at right, HBO above

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.

1917: Mob in front of the White House during a demonstration

1917: Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins, Eunice Dana Branham, in prison clothes.

1917: Suffrage prisoners in jail

                                       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.

Historian for the National Woman’s Party with the Nina Allender political cartoons.

The work of Nina Allender.

1919-1920: Alice Paul in front of headquarters.

1920s: Mrs. Harvey Wiley, on phone, Anita Pollitzer, Alice Paul, and unknown woman making phone calls for the Equal Rights Amendment.

1920: Catherine Flannagan, notary public, swearing in Alice Paul to vote.

1920: Alice Paul toasts banner in front of National Woman’s Party headquarters to commemorate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Most pictures and text (unless otherwise noted) taken from HBO.com