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The Original Women's March

The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession really was the original Women’s March. It called women from around the country to Washington, DC for Inauguration…

A genius for publicity

Had the 1913 march gone flawlessly it would have been less of a success. Alice Paul immediately realized that the violent disruption and police…

First suffragist meetings with the President

Two weeks after Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Alice Paul led a delegation to the White House for suffragists’ first-ever meeting with a US President.…

Taking over the Senate

Passage of the 16th & 17th Amdts in 1913 - especially the 17th, which expanded voting rights over opposition from the deep south - proved a…

Why Alice & Lucy threatened NAWSA

Alice Paul & Lucy Burns didn’t rebel against the mainstream suffrage organization. It kicked them out. Natl Am. Woman Suffrage Assoc was an…

Getting the President's Attention

Direct action strategies almost always start with a modest gesture, which is pilloried as inappropriate and impolite. Once activists escalate to more…

National Woman's Party nomenclature

What was the National Woman’s Party? How did it differ from the Congressional Union? Was that different from the Congressional Committee? The effort…

Founding of a new party

Presidential conventions. Eh. 2020 conventions planned for Charlotte, Jacksonville & Milwaukee may end up being nowhere at all. But in 1916, the…

Entering WWI

Woodrow Wilson was staunchly opposed to two things: entering the war in Europe, and supporting women’s suffrage. He gave in on the war first. Wilson…