College Day in the picket line
Picketing the White House
Members of the breakaway National Woman's Party(NWP) picket the White House during the Wilson administration. They are wearing banners designating their Alma Maters. The NWP strove to show that their organization was made up of dedicated young professionals rather than a group of wild eyed fanatics.
Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Feb. 1917
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Maryland Day [picketing the White House for suffrage]
Suffragette picketers outside the White House
The National Woman's Party had numerous branches throughout the country. State organizations, like the women of Maryland shown here, agitated locally for suffrage rights on a state by state basis. When the 19th amendment went to the states these state organizations were instrumental to the amendment's passage.
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
1917
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Penn[sylvania] on the picket line
Suffragists stand outside the White House calling for President Wilson to endorse the Suffragist movement.
Fourteen Suffragists stand on the picket line outside the Wilson White House. The sign reads, "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty." Wilson would lead the United States to war by calling it a democratic crusade. American women used this message to batter the president by pointing to his support for democracy abroad and its suppression at home. In this way the NWP sought to force Wilson into supporting the suffragette movement.
Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
mnwp 160022
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160022
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
1917
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Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel (center) of Delaware for refusing to give up their banners.
Arrests were made frequently and were used as a way to get the NWP picketers off the White house property.
In this image we see three women in the foreground. Two are NWP picketers and the third is a police woman who is in the process of arresting the picketers. It has been estimated that close to 300 NWP members were arrested and near 100 picketers were imprisoned for varying lengths of stay. The woman in the background is holding aloft a banner showing the colors of the NWP white, gold and purple. White for the purity of their intentions, gold for the justice of their cause and purple for the spirit in which they pursued it.
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Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
PROTEST FOR PICKETS SENT TO PRESIDENT:Mrs. Belmont Tells Him Their Treatment in Washington Jail Is Inhuman.
The treatment of incarcerated picketers was often severe and sometimes brutal. The NWP constantly sought to get its members freed by having them classified as political prisoners and petitioning the White House for their release.
The article describes the poor conditions that Alice Paul and other picketers are enduring in prison calling them political prisoners it asks why they are held in a jail for murders. The article also goes on to describe the next picket of the White House in the coming days. The article, written on November 10, 1917, comes four days before the infamous "Night of Terror" and the protest referred to in the article is most likely the same that caused the violent beatings of several women while in their cells. It is a grisly reminder of knowing what is going to happen and the hopeful tone taken by the picketers who want to be allowed to march is heart-rending.
New York Times (1857-1922). New York, N.Y.:Nov 10, 1917. p. 3 (1 pp.)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2007)
November 10, 1917
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Suffragettes picketing at the East Wing of the White House in 1917.
Picketing the White House
The suffragists who picketed the White House were the first to do so according to the White House Museum. Verbally and physically abused by crowds, the police did little as President Wilson sought to ignore the men and women marching outside.
(Library of Congress)
http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/east-wing.htm
1917
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SUFFRAGISTS PLAN TO CONTINUE TROUBLE:Hope Their Banners Will Keep On Waving at White House Gates--Two More Arrested.
Alice Paul and the NWP react to an early series of arrests.
This article describes the NWP as an organization determined to continue its efforts. The incarcerated picketers are described as uncomfortable in prison but determined to succeed. Alice Paul is shown as an indefatigable organizer, using the news garnered by her colleagues imprisonment to draw more attention to the cause. Paul's use of the release of the picketers as a chance to celebrate the success of the movement shows the deep commitment felt by the NWP's leadership to women's suffrage.
Special to The New York Times.
New York Times (1857-1922); Jun 29, 1917
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2007)
June 28, 1917
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