Today in history.
Contributors: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.; Women's rights -- United States -- History.
Other titles: August 28; Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?
Description: On August 28, 1917 ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House in an effort to pressure President Woodrow Wilson to support the proposed "Anthony amendment" to the Constitution which would guarantee women the right to vote.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.