The day after the police announce that future pickets would be given limit of 6 mos. in prison, Alice Paul led picket line with banner reading "The time has come to conquer or submit for there is but one choice - we have made it." She is followed by Mrs. Lawrence Lewis [Dora Lewis]. This group received 6 mos. in prison.

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The day after the police announce that future pickets would be given limit of 6 mos. in prison, Alice Paul led picket line with banner reading "The time has come to conquer or submit for there is but one choice - we have made it." She is followed by Mrs. Lawrence Lewis [Dora Lewis]. This group received 6 mos. in prison.

Author/Creator

Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Created/Published

[1917 Oct. 20]

Notes

Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul emerging from National Woman's Party headquarters holding banner, followed by Dora Lewis (with no banner). Unidentified women stand with a banner in doorway of building. Banner Paul carries reads: "The Time Has Come to Conquer or Submit, For Us There Is But One Choice. [I] Have Made It. President Wilson." Paul is leading picket line from headquarters to the White House.
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Subjects

United States--District of Columbia--
Picketing
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
Lewis, Dora Kelly, b. 1862
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
Women--Suffrage--United States
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 4.25 x 7 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Pickets, 1917

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

mnwp 160029
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160029