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Lafayette, we are here!No one symbolizes Franco-American friendship and loyalty like the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the Revolutionary War. During WWI, soldiers and…
Olympia BrownMeet a suffragist who began her career canvassing Kansas in 1867 -- and ended it in 1918 burning Woodrow Wilson’s speeches by the White House. In…
Jeannette Rankin's ElectionPhotoshop was invented in 1987 - but this photo of Jeannette Rankin was edited a long time before that. Read on . . . On the morning Rankin was sworn…
Foreign Policy, Public EmbarrassmentThe first time the National Woman’s Party “Silent Sentinels” were arrested, they had been picketing the White House every day for six months. Why were…
Entering WWIWoodrow 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…
Picketing the White House beginsSuffragists picketed the White House from 10 am-6pm every day but Sundays. They continued - attacked by mobs, arrested daily - for more than two…
Access to the White HouseThe day before suffragists started picketing the White House, they were there as invited guests. Access thread. One of the striking things about the…
Suffrage martyrPresident Wilson surely thought the National Woman’s Party women were nasty. They campaigned ferociously against his reelection in western states in…
Suffrage for white womenBy the 1916 election, it was clear the Nat'l Woman’s Party strategy was working: a federal constitutional amendment had become a live political issue.…
Founding of a new partyPresidential conventions. Eh. 2020 conventions planned for Charlotte, Jacksonville & Milwaukee may end up being nowhere at all. But in 1916, the…