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In early 1917, Alice Paul upped the ante. Suffragists began stationing themselves daily in front of the The day suffragists paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1913 was a turning point in the fight for women's "The fact that a woman will put her body on the line for her right to be a citizen is considered shocking. But women are realizing ... When President Gerald Ford was inaugurated in 1974, the Nixons hadn't had time to move out of the A veteran of the suffrage wars, Harriot Stanton Blatch organized labor activists, spoke to crowds of Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategy and tactics. The suffragists, stung by a string of bitter state-level defeats in ...

In the final years before the passage of the 19th Amendment, the suffrage movement splintered over strategy — some favoring ... In January 2020, Virginia became the latest state to ratify a constitutional amendment that the country has been fighting about for ... Part one traces the rise of suffrage militancy, a direct-action approach to politics inspired by Britain's notoriously militant ... In the early 20th century, women's roles were changing dramatically. "[They] were impatient for the change that they were realizing ...