num_pages: 304
description: In this heroic narrative ( The Wall Street Journal ) discover the inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for womens equality.Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington DC in March of 1913 a day before he is set to take the presidential oath of office. He is surprised by the modest turnout. The crowds and reporters are blocks away from Union Station watching a parade of eight thousand suffragists on Pennsylvania Avenue in a first-of-its-kind protest organized by a twenty-five-year-old activist named Alice Paul. The next day The New York Times calls the procession one of the most impressively beautiful spectacles ever staged in this country.Mr. President How Long Must We Wait? weaves together two the trajectories of Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson two apparent opposites. Pauls procession of suffragists resulted in her being granted a face-to-face meeting with President Wilson one that would lead to many meetings and much discussion but little progress for women. With no equality in sight and patience wearing thin Paul organized the first group to ever picket in front of the White House lawnnight and day through sweltering summer mornings and frigid fall nights.From solitary confinement hunger strikes and the psychiatric ward to ever more determined activism Mr. President How Long Must We Wait? reveals the courageous near-death journey it took spearheaded in no small part by Alice Pauls leadership to grant women the right to vote in America. A remarkable tale ( Kirkus Reviews ) and a rousing portrait of a little-known feminist heroine this is an eye-opening exploration of a crucial moment in American history one century before the Womens March.
language: English
title: Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
publisher: 37 Ink