Document P7-3: Woman Suffrage In Washington, District of Columbia (c. 1917–1918)

Suffragists Bring Battle to the President

Woman Suffrage in Washington, District of Columbia (c. 1917–1918)

Gender identity was at the heart of the women’s rights movement. Reformers frequently based their arguments for the vote on the notion that women’s gender peculiarly fitted them to contribute to public discussions. In the years leading to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the National American Woman Suffrage Association led organizing drives, protests, and parades, rallying women as “sisters in the cause” to push for voting rights, even, as shown here, staging vigils at the White House.

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Source: “Woman Suffrage in Washington, District of Columbia,” Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-H261-29868.

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