The speeches by pro-suffrage Senators today were as eloquent and impassioned as they had been during yesterday’s debate.
Founding Feminists: September 30, 1918
It was a truly stunning moment when President Wilson came into the Senate at 1:00 this afternoon and spoke eloquently and unequivocally about the need for women’s suffrage.
Founding Feminists: September 27, 1914
On September 14th they began sending speakers with carloads of literature to the districts where Democrats will be up for election in November, hoping to get the West’s four million women voters to replace them with Republicans.
Founding Feminists: September 26, 1968
Their common purpose was to save the N.W.P.’s headquarters, and the property immediately surrounding it.
Founding Feminists: September 25, 1932
“This strange freak of legislation is merely a reaction against the employment of women on the part of men who, after all the remarkable work women have done, still cannot push aside their biased opinions and honestly consider the real good of the service.”
Founding Feminists: September 24, 1917
Though Representative Joe Walsh, Republican of Massachusetts, called it yielding to “the nagging of iron-jawed angels,” the militant tactics of the National Woman’s Party seem to be paying off.
Founding Feminists: September 23, 1923
I have been as one crying in the wilderness to women of wealth and leisure to give over their pleasure and frivolities and do something to justify their existence. I have cried in vain. No reform ever appealed to people who have all they want.
Founding Feminists: September 20, 1973
Billie Jean King’s 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 rout of Bobby Riggs earlier this evening was a major triumph for women in sports, and for the revitalized feminist movement itself.
Founding Feminists: September 19, 1893
In an unprecedented victory for the worldwide suffrage movement, the women of New Zealand won full voting rights today!
Founding Feminists: September 18, 1968
Alice Paul is in full fighting mode today.
Founding Feminists: September 17, 1909
Now that the nation’s largest suffrage organization is situated in such a strategic location, and rent is not a burden, the future of the cause seems very bright.
Founding Feminists: September 16, 1918
There has been more progress in the past five years than in the sixty-five that preceded it, so “more of the same” by both factions should produce the result that all suffragists desire: “Votes for Women” in all 48 States, and permanently assured.
Founding Feminists: September 12, 1967
Are being quite young, very attractive, and an unmarried woman “bona fide occupational qualifications” for being a flight attendant?
Founding Feminists: September 11, 1917
Over the past eight months, pickets have endured extreme cold and heavy snow, then rain, heat and humidity, criticism from more conservative suffragists, attacks by mobs, and finally arrests and lengthy sentences in the harshest of prisons.
Founding Feminists: September 10, 1920
Debt-free and with their initial task happily accomplished, the National Woman’s Party can now move on toward their new goal of total equality.
Founding Feminists: September 9, 1912
“The suffrage having been given to you, it is not only your right but your duty to exercise it. You are false to your duty as citizens and as women if you fail to register and vote.”
Founding Feminists: September 6, 1920
Now that the fight over “Votes for Women” has moved from the State Legislatures to the courts, the process of dismantling the political machine that brought about the victory has begun.
Founding Feminists: September 5, 1910
In a very encouraging sign, a majority of the over 70,000 marchers in New York City’s Labor Day Parade this afternoon were women.
Founding Feminists: September 4, 1974
Just 26 days after becoming First Lady, Betty Ford has held her first press conference.
Founding Feminists: September 3, 1912
Despite a valiant try, the 1912 Ohio suffrage campaign is ending in defeat tonight.