Rose O'Neill "Callista and I were keen about the fight for woman suffrage and I walked in some parades, wore a placard, and made drawings for the cause. One Sunday evening I had been at an anti-suffrage meeting uptown and had stopped off at Madison Square, where I saw a crowd gathered about a platform.… Continue reading Missouri Women Talk Suffrage
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Alma Nash & Her Band
The women's suffrage parade of 1913 was a big deal. Women from all over the country descended on Pennsylvania Avenue and threw their cause in the face of all the men attending Wilson's inauguration the next day. As the women began to march, men started to harass. They marched amid jeers, taunts, grabs and shoves from men. Even the police didn't protect them,… Continue reading Alma Nash & Her Band
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