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Related: About this forumToday in Herstory: NYC Suffrage Offices Prep For (Another) Big Parade (20 april 1912)
Today in Herstory: NYC Suffrage Offices Prep For (Another) Big Parade
April 20, 1912: There is great excitement and activity today at two New York City suffrage offices, as the day of the big parade approaches. May 4th is just two weeks away, so there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 marchers take to the streets for the largest and most elaborate woman suffrage pageant ever presented.
Suffrage parades began four years ago, when about two dozen brave members of the Progressive Woman Suffrage Union defied custom and police by marching a few blocks up Broadway on February 16, 1908. In 1910 the idea was tried again, with the number of marchers increased to four hundred. Last year the rapid growth continued and three thousand stepped off.
Thanks to the annual repetition, favorable publicity and official city permission making the idea seem less radical, more and more people and organizations are now taking part. The victory in California on October 10th, when it became the sixth and by far the largest equal suffrage State has also helped to re-energize the suffrage movement, so theres really no telling how large this years parade may actually turn out to be.
Today the Womens Political Union was not only open unusual for a Saturday afternoon but packed with women in white suits, tri-color sashes and the new 39-cent Votes for Women parade hats they will all be wearing. Well, almost all. Harriot Stanton Blatch, president of Vassars Class of 1878, W.P.U. President and daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will be wearing a mortar board and college gown when she leads the parade. A few other officers will be dressed in the same manner.
Meanwhile, at the Woman Suffrage Partys new headquarters, up to 50 women have been hard at work making large five dollar banners for thirty-seven and a half cents. Sixty-three banners are in production, one for each Assembly District in the city. Large black letters are being cut out, then sewn on to suffrage yellow banners.
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Today in Herstory: NYC Suffrage Offices Prep For (Another) Big Parade (20 april 1912) (Original Post)
niyad
Apr 2015
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Warpy
(111,261 posts)1. My mother, grandmother and great grandmother were in that one
It was one of my mother's earliest memories.
niyad
(113,304 posts)2. oh my goodness. do you have any images, any memorabilia from it? thank you so much
for sharing this!!
Warpy
(111,261 posts)3. No, they were shutterbugs starting a few years later
but the equipment in 1912 was a little too cumbersome to take to a parade along with a toddler.
niyad
(113,304 posts)4. of course you are correct. was not thinking. makes these pieces of herstory even
more immediate and real. again, my thanks.