Photo: White House Suffrage Demonstration
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Object Details
- date made
- 1919
- associated date
- 1919
- associated institution
- National Woman's Party
- Description
- This photo shows crowds gathered outside the White House for a suffrage demonstration on January 13, 1919. During the protest shown in the photo, 22 women were arrested.
- The watch fires of freedom marked a return of woman suffrage pickets to the White House. They burned copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches in small cauldrons calling attention to his hypocrisy in touting democratic principles abroad while simultaneously refusing to secure the Senate votes needed to pass the woman suffrage amendment.
- The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women was ratified in August 1920.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia
- associated place
- United States: District of Columbia
- general subject association
- Women's Suffrage
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Voting Rights
- Women's History
- March, Rally, Demonstration, or Other
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Woman Suffrage
- Credit Line
- Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, Inc.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1991.3016.063
- catalog number
- 1991.3016.063
- nonaccession number
- 1991.3016
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 6 1/2 in x 7 in; 16.51 cm x 17.78 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_1102674