Tag: feminist history

The Equal Rights Amendment got a major boost today when President Eisenhower became the first Chief Executive to include a call for its passage in a Presidential message to Congress.

Expanded picket lines require more banners, so four more have been added. All the banners ask one of two questions: “MR. PRESIDENT, HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY?” and “MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE?”

“MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE?”

For the third time in 13 months, “General” Rosalie Jones has successfully led a band of suffrage pilgrims to their destination.

Today Rhode Island and Kentucky became the 23rd and 24th States to ratify, which means that just 12 more are needed to make it the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Though the day started and ended well, an experiment in recruitment along the route was somewhat less than successful.

Fatigue, rain, cold, wind and a muddy up-hill, down-hill road proved worthy adversaries, but “General” Rosalie Jones and her “suffrage army” still advanced twenty-two miles today from Peekskill to Fishkill.

“The weather shall not daunt us. We are going to Albany, and the road lies ahead.”

“Suffrage Army” troops are pushing on toward Albany on Day Two of their march!

On to Albany!

If you’ve been thinking that women seem to be losing jobs even faster than men since the current Depression began and that women who are still employed are being exploited far more than before, there is now solid evidence to back up that impression.

The campaign for a 20th Amendment, to assure equal rights for women, is quickly taking shape!

For the first time since 1807, when the New Jersey Legislature revoked the right of that State’s unmarried, property-owning women to vote, there is now a part of the United States where a woman – in this case regardless of her marital or economic status – can now legally cast a ballot: The Territory of Wyoming!

American suffragist Alice Paul has been freed from London’s Holloway Prison!

After fifty-five National American Woman Suffrage Association convention delegates vowed to stay in Washington, D.C., all Winter if that was what needed to be done in order to meet with President Wilson, he has finally agreed to receive a N.A.W.S.A. deputation.

“We are going to see President Wilson if it takes all Winter.”

“If the Constitution stands in our way, let’s tear it up and make a new one!”

Many prominent and articulate suffragists went to Capitol Hill at 10:30 to testify before the House Rules Committee in favor of establishing a Standing Committee on Woman Suffrage in the House.

The treatment of women by the criminal justice system was denounced today by Louise De Koven Bowen.

Though Alice Paul has refused food since November 5th, and been force-fed three times a day since the 8th, it appears to be the Wilson Administration that’s in a rapidly weakening condition and eager to find a compromise.