This small scrap of cloth tells a much larger story of suffrage history.This week in 1917, the Natio
This small scrap of cloth tells a much larger story of suffrage history.This week in 1917, the National Women’s Party started picketing outside the White House for the right to vote. For months they protested silently, until a crowd began taunting them, throwing eggs and tomatoes at them, and tearing up their banners.So the women made more banners.A scrap from one was seized by police but eventually made its way to Alice Paul, the founder of the NWP and leader of the pickets, and then into our National Museum of American History. -- source link
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