El 4: 27 Badass Ladies Who Secured Your Right to Vote

martes, 27 de agosto de 2013

27 Badass Ladies Who Secured Your Right to Vote

The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote on August 26, 1920 — seventy-two years after the idea had first been proposed.

During those years, women protested, rallied and marched. As they began to take on work typically done by men at the start of World War I, women put pressure on then-President Woodrow Wilson to see them as political equals. Eventually, they gained his support.

In honor of the 93rd anniversary, brush up on your women's history and remember those who secured U.S. ladies' right to vote.

Pavement Campaign 1907

Suffragettes Annie Kenney and Mary Gawthorne painting a pavement with a slogan, 'Votes For Women', during the Hexham by-election.
Suffragette protestor

An American suffragette with an umbrella stands next to a baby carriage and wears a sign proclaiming 'Women! Use your vote,' circa 1920.
Pankhurst Jeered circa 1911

British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst being jeered by a crowd in New York.
Suffrage Parade in New York City, 1912

Women march during a Suffrage Parade held in New York City.
Suffragette circa 1912

Miss Martha Gruening distributes literature publicising the Women's Suffrage Movement to passers-by outside the Lyceum Theatre.
Suffrage Parade in New York City, 1912

Women march during a Suffrage Parade held in New York City.
Flowers Of Suffrage

A group of flower girls marching in a Women's Suffragette Parade in New York City in 1916.
National Women's Suffrage Association, April 22, 1913

Suffragists Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker holding a banner between them reading "National Woman Suffrage Association."
Maude Malone at women's suffrage meeting

The Library Employees' Union's main spokesperson, Maud Malone attends the Suffrage Meeting of 1914 in New York City.
Doctors For Votes circa 1916

A doctors procession in support of women's suffrage.
Mary McLeod Bethune

American educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune with the United States Capital Building in the background.
Rosalie Jones circa 1913

American suffragette Rosalie Jones during the march from New York to Washington DC.
Stars For Suffrage

Actresses Fola la Follette, Virginia Kline, Madame Youska and Eleanor Lawson attend a Women's Suffrage Movement parade to campaign for votes for women.
Suffrage Girls

A band of 'news girls' of the Women's Suffrage Movement prepare to invade New York's Wall Street, armed with leaflets and slogans demanding votes for women.
Suffrage Speech Society

Society women wearing sandwich boards to publicise a talk at Cooper Union by the governors of the states which have granted the vote to women.
Suffragette Mobile circa 1922

Four members of the Women's Suffrage Movement in a car at a demonstration.
Suffragettes March

A group of suffragettes campaigning for the right to vote in the United States march in a parade carrying a banner reading, I Wish Ma Could Vote,' circa 1913.
Suffragists parade down Fifth Avenue, 1917

Suffragists "march in October 1917, displaying placards containing the signatures of over one million New York women demanding to vote.
Votes For Women, 9th February 1913

A banner advertising a talk on the Women's Suffrage Movement by Jane Addams and others at Carnegie Hall in New York.
First contingent of the Women's Overseas Hospitals

The first contingent of the Women's Overseas Hospitals, supported by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Suffrage banner under arrest

Suffrage banner bearers being arrested during protests outside the White House.
Woman suffrage in Washington, District of Columbia

Suffragettes bonfire and posters at the White House, Washington, District of Columbia.
Wake Up America, 19th April 1917

American suffragettes Mrs Phil Lydig and Mrs John C Blair marching in the 'Wake Up America' parade in New York.
Women munition workers urge President to support suffrage bill

Six women war workers, representing thousands of others, were delegated to see President Wilson and urge him to support the motion for an immediate passage of the federal suffrage amendment.
Women Drivers Suffragettes

Suffragettes Nell Richardson and Alice S. Burke driving a car at a rally in New York in 1915.
Women's suffragists demonstrate in February 1913

The triangular pennants read "VOTES FOR WOMEN".
Women voting in Seattle

Newly enfranchised women voting in the recall election of Hiram Gill as mayor of Seattle, Washington, February 1911.