1. Feminism—Brainstorm

2. Why did it take so long? Abolition? Prohibition? Progressivism?
40 to pass amendment

3. Women’s Suffrage

4. Previous Connections…

5. Contextualization?

6. Opposition—the “antis”
“We believe in every possible advancement to women. We believe that this advancement should be along those legitimate lines of work and endeavor for which she is best fitted and for which she has now unlimited opportunities. We believe this advancement will be better achieved through strictly non-partisan effort and without the limitations of the ballot. We believe in Progress, not in Politics for women”

7. Names… Early feminists— Suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Suffragists
Lucy Burns
Alice Paul

8. National Women’s Party & The Night of Terror
Strategic shift—federal level—picketing
Picketing was fairly new—unheard of by women
Considered ‘unpatriotic’ or traitors during WWI
Police intervention and & jail sentences for 6 weeks
‘Workhouse for Women’
Dorothy Day (73 years old)
William Whittaker
Very little legal representation
Alice Paul= 7 month sentence
“political prisoners”
Hunger strike

9. Shift in public opinion
“we were put out of jail the same way we were put in—at the whim of the government”
All arrests and jailings were deemed illegal

10. Document Analysis Sojourner Truth—”Aint I a Woman”
New Yorkers Ridicule Feminists
Lucy Stone Protests Traditional Marriage
Margaret Sanger
ERA Debate

11. ERA Debate

12. What would Lucy Burns and Alice Paul say about ‘the flapper’ persona?

13. Synthesis?
Economist Article
Military
Paternity leave