Party members picketing the Republican convention, Chicago, June 1920. L-R Abby Scott Baker, Florence Taylor Marsh, Sue White, Elsie Hill, Betty Gram.

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Item Title

Party members picketing the Republican convention, Chicago, June 1920. L-R Abby Scott Baker, Florence Taylor Marsh, Sue White, Elsie Hill, Betty Gram.

Author/Creator

Photographer: International Film Service Co., Inc.

Created/Published

1920 June

Notes

Summary: Photograph of women holding banners outside in front of stores. Banners read "Tennessee," "Connecticut," and "We protest against the continued disfranchisement of women for which the Republican party is now responsible. The Republican party defeated ratification in Delaware. The Republican party is blocking ratification in Vermont. The Republican party is blocking ratification in Connecticut. When will the Republican party stop blocking suffrage?"
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Abby Scott Baker, Betty Gram, Elsie M. Hill, and Sue Shelton White all spent time in jail for their participation in NWP activism. White, of Jackson, Tenn., was state chairman of the NWP and one of the editors of The Suffragist. She was a court and convention reporter for ten years and in 1918 was appointed by the Governor of Tennessee to the State Commission for the Blind. She was active with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as the Federation of Women's Clubs and the Parent Teachers' Association. She was arrested Feb. 9, 1919, and served five days in District Jail for participating in watchfire demonstration. She soon after participated in the NWP's "Prison Special" tour of the United States. Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 370.

Subjects

United States--Illinois--Chicago
United States--Tennessee--Jackson
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Illinois
Picketing
Baker, Abby Scott, 1871-1944
Hill, Elsie M. (Elsie Mary), b. 1883
White, Sue Shelton, 1887-1943
Marsh, Florence Taylor
Gram, Betty
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 7.5 x 9.5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:276, Folder: Group Photographs Nos. 111-118

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Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 276033
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.276033