Photo: White House Suffrage Demonstration
date: label: date made
content: 1919
label: associated date
content: 1919
name: label: associated institution
content: National Woman's Party
notes: label: Description
content: This photo shows crowds gathered outside the White House for a suffrage demonstration on January 13, 1919. During the protest shown in the photo, 22 women were arrested.
label: Description
content: The watch fires of freedom marked a return of woman suffrage pickets to the White House. They burned copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches in small cauldrons calling attention to his hypocrisy in touting democratic principles abroad while simultaneously refusing to secure the Senate votes needed to pass the woman suffrage amendment.
label: Description
content: The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women was ratified in August 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
label: associated place
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: general subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
label: general subject association
content: Equal Rights Amendment
label: general subject association
content: Voting Rights
label: general subject association
content: Women's History
label: general subject association
content: Demonstrations
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content: Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.3016.063
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3016.063
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6 1/2 in x 7 in; 16.51 cm x 17.78 cm