Unknown suffragette, 1918
AncientFaces Suffragettes were housewives, laborers, and professionals. All women were fighting for their rights - to vote, to hold property, to keep their children.
Unknown suffragette, 1917
AncientFaces What a protest sign: "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God"
"Susan B. Anthony Pageant"
AncientFaces 1915
June 1920 - almost there
AncientFaces The 19th Amendment was passed on August 18, 1920. It states "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." This protest banner says ""No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her" This is an 1872 quote by Susan B. Anthony.
Margaret Vale
AncientFaces President Wilson's niece and an actress, she fought for women's rights. Here, she's "Alaska" in a 1915 suffrage parade. Alaska gave women the vote in 1913.
Lucy Stone
AncientFaces Susan B. Anthony said of her ""Lucy Stone was the first person by whom the heart of the American public was deeply stirred on the woman question." She was also an abolitionist.
Inez Milholland
AncientFaces Lawyer, pacifist, feminist, suffragette, and national face of the women's movement, she married a Dutchman and lost her American citizenship (because women had to take the citizenship of their husbands).
Inez on a horse
AncientFaces For the 1913 women's suffrage march, she was one of four "mounted heralds."
Lucy Branham
AncientFaces After earning a Master's Degree, Lucy tirelessly worked for women's rights, prisoner's rights, and equal rights worldwide until her death in 1966.
1913 - suffragettes on a float
AncientFaces The protest banner reads "Women's cause is man's - they rise or fall together".
Women's "riot", 1917
AncientFaces After 16 months of picketing the White House, authorities has reached their limit and began arresting picketers for "obstructing traffic". The prisons became filled with suffragettes.
Carrie Chapman Catt
AncientFaces She was the founder of the League of Women Voters in 1920.
Phoebe Hawn
AncientFaces In 1913, Phoebe was one of 14 women who hiked 295 miles (from NYC to Washington, DC) in the support of women's right to vote.
Rosalie Jones
AncientFaces General Leader of the 1913 Suffragette Parade.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
AncientFaces Both were strong, independent ladies who came from socially concerned families. Elizabeth married and had 8 children, Susan never married.
Alberta Hall
AncientFaces Fashionable 1914 suffragette.
Mrs. Martine
AncientFaces A suffragette who went to prison because of her activism.
Mrs. Despard
AncientFaces An elegant suffragette.
Police "escort"
AncientFaces In 1908 New York, a police captain escorts suffragettes from City Hall.
Bessie Hassis
AncientFaces 1919 photo of a suffragette.
A suffragette parade in 1917
AncientFaces Unknown suffragette putting up posters
AncientFaces She's covering other posters - hers says "Votes for Women"!
The "oldest suffragette"
AncientFaces No name survives but her photo is titled "the oldest suffragette."
Susan B. Anthony (who was born 197 years ago, on February 15, 1820) is best known as the leader of the Women's Rights Movement along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But previous to her activity in women's rights, she was actively involved in the abolitionist movement (to end slavery). Elizabeth and Susan founded the Women's Loyal National League, collecting over 400,000 signatures on a petition demanding that slavery be abolished. A few years later, they created the American Equal Rights Association "to secure Equal Rights to all American citizens, especially the right of suffrage, irrespective of race, color or sex." It wasn't until 14 years after Susan B. Anthony's death that women were "given" the right to vote in the U.S. She never gave up and her tenacity and fervor lead others to take up the fight.
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