Riding for Rights!
AncientFaces A "herald" at the front of a 1913 suffrage parade
Scandalous!
AncientFaces This is a suffragette "marching uniform". You can see her limbs!
It wasn't just about voting
AncientFaces Suffragettes also demanded equal rights, such as the right to smoke in public. Not so popular today?
Fashionable with furs
AncientFaces Although it would take another 12 years to get the vote, this suffragette looks upbeat!
What woman doesn't want to protest in flowers?
AncientFaces Suffragette Mrs. George Odell
Suffragette Parade
AncientFaces Women march . . . men watch!
"Help us to win the vote"
AncientFaces Women stand . . . men watch
1913 Postcard: "Votes for Women"
AncientFaces "For the work of a day, for the taxes we pay, for the laws we obey, we want something to say"
Even when we protest, we're artistic!
AncientFaces 1918 Suffrage demonstration at the statue of Marquis de Lafayette
Magazine support, 1915
AncientFaces Puck magazine, an influential publication, supported women's suffrage in the 1910's.
Educating the next generation
AncientFaces Two suffragettes showing a young girl the Suffrage Flag (in England, the colors were purple, white, and green - in the U.S., they were purple, white, and gold).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
AncientFaces They were abolitionists and pioneer suffragettes.
Suffragette float, 1913
AncientFaces "Women's cause is man's - they rise or fall together"
Our U.K. sisters burned!
AncientFaces Saunderton Station in England, burned by suffragists in 1913.
Bonfire at the White House gate
AncientFaces In 1919 in the U.S., the fires were smaller.
A model for us all - Alaska
AncientFaces Alaska gave the vote to women in 1913. In 1915, President Wilson's niece portrayed "Alaska" in a suffrage parade.
The original March on Washington
AncientFaces Suffragettes march to Washington DC in 1913
Anti-suffrage viewpoint: A woman's place is in the home
AncientFaces Caption: Gaylord: There's my wife! And I'll bet she's looking for me! Fair Companion: Oh, dear! Why can't some people understand that woman's place is in the home?
Not just picketing!
AncientFaces This is the "Butterfly dance" at the suffragette ball. Graceful!
We can sneak onto the police lines
AncientFaces A suffragette in a suggested "police uniform" - so they could infiltrate police lines?
We have Presidential support!
AncientFaces Suffragette parade, 1916. They're carrying a banner that says: "President Wilson favors votes for women"
Ohio Headquarters for Suffrage
AncientFaces They were trying to lobby men to vote for female suffrage in 1912.
Almost there!
AncientFaces July 1920 - a month before the last state (TN) needed to ratify the 19th Amendment voted to do so.
Success!
Michelle Cassidy Finally, women had the right to vote. This banner has stars for the states who had ratified the 19th Amendment.
Memorial to those who worked so hard
AncientFaces Suffrage Memorial 1921
Force feeding The practice of "force feeding" was used on suffragettes who went on a hunger strike in both the US and the UK. This is an excerpt of suffragette Alice Paul's experience in 1909:
“I practiced a hunger strike until November 11th. After that date they fed me twice a day by force, except on one day when I was too ill to lie touched. I have no complaints against the Holloway officials. I spent the whole time in bed, because I refused to wear prison clothes. Each day, I was wrapped in blankets and taken to another cell to be fed, the food being injected through my nostrils. During this operation the largest Wardress in Holloway sat astride my knees, holding my shoulders down to keep me from bending forward. Two other wardresses sat on either side and held my arms. Then a towel was placed around my throat, and one doctor from behind forced my head back, while another doctor put a tube in my nostril. When it reached my throat my head was pushed forward.
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