Though today’s parade of 20 witnesses before a Senate subcommittee was far fewer than the 6,000 to 8,000 suffragists who fought their way down Washington, D.C.’s Pennsylvania Avenue on March 3rd, the respect and courtesy this smaller group received was infinitely greater.
Founding Feminists: March 5, 1919
The “Prison Special” arrived tonight in Chicago, carrying women who have served time in the Washington, D.C., District Jail, or Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse, for picketing along the White House fence in favor of woman suffrage.
Founding Feminists: March 4, 1918
A major victory today for 218 suffragists arrested last year for picketing along the White House fence!
Founding Feminists: February 28, 1913
The end of the trail and a spectacular entry into Washington, D.C., today for the suffrage hikers!
Founding Feminists: February 27, 1913
The suffrage hikers pushed on toward Washington, D.C., this morning despite rain, mud, hecklers and a growing conflict with the officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Founding Feminists: February 26, 1913
“We send and beg of you to accept this ‘Votes for Women’ flag as a memento of our pilgrimage through New York and New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Yours very truly, Rosalie Gardiner Jones.”
Founding Feminists: February 25, 1913
Proving that they can be as bold indoors as outdoors, the suffrage hikers descended upon two of Baltimore’s most patriarchal institutions on the 14th day of their journey.
Founding Feminists: February 24, 1913
“General” Rosalie Jones’ suffrage army is reunited and back to full strength again as “Colonel” Craft’s contingent marched into Baltimore on Day 13 of the hike from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C.
Founding Feminists: February 21, 1913
This small, but dedicated group will have given a big boost to the struggle for woman suffrage by the time they finally arrive in the nation’s capital and join in the big suffrage parade and pageant on March 3rd.
Founding Feminists: February 20, 1913
“The suffragette is at the door / Maryland, my Maryland / On foot she hikes to Baltimore / Maryland, my Maryland / Come, join the Hudson’s hiking throng / Stalking with Rosalie along / And chant the dauntless suffrage song.”
Founding Feminists: February 19, 1913
After seven consecutive days of walking, and approximately 116 of the 225 miles from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C. behind them, the suffrage hikers are spending this eighth day in Wilmington, Delaware, “getting new feet” as they put it.
Founding Feminists: February 18, 1913
Day Seven of the suffrage hike was very successful in a number of ways, not the least of which was passing the midpoint in the long trek from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C.
Founding Feminists: February 14, 1913
“A small band of votes-for-women pilgrims from the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Ohio earnestly request of you an audience for not more than two minutes in Washington as soon after your arrival as possible. They desire to present a message to you.”
Bread and Roses: 100 Hundred Years Later
One hundred years ago, in the dead of a New England winter, the great Bread and Roses Strike of textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts began.
Founding Feminists: February 13, 1913
This was an eventful, but exhausting, 27-mile second day of the Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C., suffrage hike by “General” Rosalie Jones and her “Army of the Hudson.”
Founding Feminists: February 11, 1937
Amelia Earhart, who became the first woman – and only the second person – to fly solo across the North Atlantic five years ago, announced plans today for a far more ambitious adventure.
Founding Feminists: February 10, 1919
A landmark suffrage victory came tantalizingly close today, but still remains just out of reach.
Founding Feminists: February 6, 1910
” …unless this cause means freedom and equal rights to all women, of every race, of every creed, rich or poor, its doctrines are worthless, and it must fail in its achievements.”
Founding Feminists: February 5, 1917
Margaret Sanger is in Brooklyn’s Raymond Street Jail tonight, beginning a 30-day sentence for the “crime” of giving out birth control information.
Founding Feminists: February 4, 1919
With just six days left until a crucial vote in the Senate, William Jennings Bryan spent today at the Capitol lobbying hard for the one more vote suffrage supporters still need for final Congressional approval of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.