Volume 14 , Issue 11

Women's Suffrage History In America

Searching back through the old newspaper for women's suffrage, we find that The Day Book, 14 April 1913, Chicago, Illinois mentions fFour women who were directing the "National Suffrage Fight" in Washington:

Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the congressional committee of the National Women's Suffrage Association, is the girl in the cap and gown in the picture on the left. She was the exact anti-thesis of the conventional idea of a woman's suffrage leader, being small and delicate. She came from a family of old Pennsylvania Quakers, the people who had been first in the fight for so many reforms affecting fundamental democracy.

Ida Evangeline Prouty, daughter of Congressman Prouty of Iowa, was a charming young girl just out of Northwestern University and was one of Alice Paul's chief lieutenants in the suffrage movement. She is pictured below Miss Paul.

Dr. Cora Smith King, formerly of Seattle, but became a resident of the District of Columbia, described herself on her card as, "A qualified voter in the state of Washington." She was an aide on the staff of Alice Paul, and wife of Judson King, secretary of the National Referendum League. Dr. Cora Smith King is to the Left of Alice Paul in the above image.

Prof. Eliza Hardy Lord of New York was also doing much of the work necessary in placing the woman's cause before Congress. She was formerly dean of women at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland. In the picture above she is wearing a hat.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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