We women of America tell you that America
is not a democracy.
Twenty million women are denied
the right to vote.
-Alice Paul
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 7, 1917
Drawing by Boardman Robinson: Banner of Arrested Suffragists
From The Masses of October 1917:
Detail-The Offending Banner:
Detail-The Offended President:
SOURCE & IMAGES
The Masses
(New York, New York)
-Oct 1917
http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/books/masses078
“Suffragists v Kaiser Wilson” by Boardman Robinson
-& details
http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/books/masses078/19
See also:
This Day in History: Aug 28, 1917
“President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists.”
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-woodrow-wilson-picketed-by-women-suffragists
The Washington Times
(Washington, District of Columbia)
-Aug 28, 1917
“Six Suffragists, Given New Trial, to Picket Again”
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1917-08-28/ed-1/seq-8/
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Aug 29, 1917
“Arrest 10 Women Pickets;
-Suffragettes Out on Bail Again Taken into Custody”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CEEDC123FE433A2575AC2A96E9C946696D6CF&legacy=true
NYT of Aug 30, 1917
-not all suffragist agreed with tactic of picketing the White House:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E0DB123FE433A25752C3A96E9C946696D6CF&legacy=true
STATE SUFFRAGISTS CONDEMN PICKETING; Saratoga Conference Almost Unanimous in Disapproval of Harassing Wilson. FULL LOYALTY IS PLEDGED Women Refuse to Invite Miss Rankin to Speak–Demonstration for Mrs. Catt. Miss Schneiderman Dissented. Seeks Preventive of War. Big Mass Meetings Planned. Vanderlip Sees Bright Prospect. Says Women Want to Fight.
Worse Is Yet to Come
Iron Jawed Angels-Trailer
Women Vote-“Night of Terror”
Suffragists: The Fight to Vote
Song of the Women
The New America