26 agosto 2015

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Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House. Miss Julia Hurlbut of Morristown, New Jersey, leading National Archives Identifier: 533766


Suffragists picket the White House. Photo shows suffragists, carrying banner, on picket duty at the east entrance of the White House National Archives Identifier: 533771


Suffragists picket the White House. Photo shows women suffragists from several states on picket duty in front of the White House National Archives Identifier: 533778

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Women’s Equality Day

Established in 1971 by Representative Bella Abzug (NY) through a Joint Resolution of Congress, Women’s Equality Day is observed on August 26 to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote in 1920.

Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

Find more photos of early suffragists in the National Archives Catalog.

Read more about the struggles of early suffragists at Prologue: Pieces of History

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