Splendor and Scrutiny of White House Tableware
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Suffragists: Fight for the Vote
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The first suffrage picket line forms at the National Woman’s Party headquarters for a march to the White House gates on January 10, 1917.
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Alice Paul, with banner, and Dora Lewis emerge from the National Woman’s Party Headquarters on Lafayette Square.
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Suffragettes form a picket line in front of the White House, 1917.
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Suffragettes hold a bonfire in front of the White House in 1917.
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Florence Youmans, from Minnesota, and Annie Arniel, from Delaware, are arrested by a female police officer for refusing to give up their banners in June, 1917.
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Suffragette Lucy Burns jailed in Occoquan Workhouse.
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National Women’s Party members hold a watch fire at the front gates of the White House in January, 1919. They demand the right to vote in America while Wilson fights for democracy in other countries.
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Suffragettes at Lafayette’s Statue demonstrating for the U.S. Senate’s approval of the suffrage amendment, June, 1919.
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