1913-1917: Suffrage Protests: Images

6: The first picket line, February, 1917

The first picket line, February, 1917: After the second inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson, suffragists started non-stop picketing around the White House to hold Wilson to his promise of support for woman suffrage.

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Slide Show created by Jone Lewis, About Women's History Guide.
Photographs courtesy of the United States Library of Congress.
Modifications to photographs © 2001 Jone Johnson Lewis.