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May Jane Walker Burleson - "Jennie" May Burleson (1888–1957) was a notable socialite, artist, and Texan suffragette who was the Grand Marshal of the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 in Washington, DC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Mounted with confidence on her horse, she led a parade of 5,000 people up Pennsylvania Avenue , Washington, DC and "into a melee that ...
The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. [citation needed] The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Planning ...
This advertisement for A Militant Suffragette (1913) shows the film's main character smashing a window (left) and being force-fed by doctors in jail (right).. Women's suffrage, the legal right of women to vote, has been depicted in film in a variety of ways since the invention of narrative film in the late nineteenth century.
Vernon atded the 1912 convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, where she was an usher.She was the first paid organizer that Alice Paul recruited. Vernon joined Lucy Burns and Paul as part of NAWSA's Congressional Committee to organize the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 that was to occur the following March where it would coincide with the inauguration of Woodrow Wils
The film derives its title from Massachusetts Representative Joseph Walsh, who in 1917 opposed the creation of a committee to deal with women's suffrage.Walsh thought the creation of a committee would be yielding to "the nagging of iron-jawed angels" and referred to the Silent Sentinels as "bewildered, deluded creatures with short skirts and short hair."
Suffrage poster depicting Milholland Boissevain dressed for the March 3, 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. In July, 1913 while on a cruise to London, Milholland proposed to Eugen Jan Boissevain, a Dutchman she had known for about a month. The two were married on July 14 at the Kensington registry office which was as soon as they could ...
A mob in Washington D.C. besieged a group of 8,000 marchers organized by Alice Paul of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.The marchers, mostly women led by suffragist Inez Milholland on horseback, had paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue on the eve of the presidential inauguration in support of granting women the right to vote in the United States.
Whitehouse became interested in suffrage after the Woman suffrage parade of 1913 erupted into violence. [3] She marched in the May 1913 suffrage parade in New York City and volunteered with the Women's Political Union after the parade. [3] Six months later Whitehouse gave her first outdoor suffrage speech. [4]