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<\/a>Suffrage parade (1912)<\/p><\/div>\n
This photograph by the Associated Press depicts a woman’s suffrage parade in New York on Saturday, May 4, 1912. Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of feminist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had begun popularizing\u00a0the tactic of urban suffragist parades as way to demonstrate the diversity of the suffrage coalition and to pressure eastern states, such as New York, to join the movement toward woman’s suffrage that had begun earlier in the nineteenth century in territories and states west of the Mississippi River. \u00a0According to historian Alexander Keyssar, 1910 had marked an important turning point in the\u00a0struggle because it was “the first time in history” that “woman’s suffrage became a mass movement.” \u00a0The 1912 New York parade helps illustrate that trend. A new generation of suffragist leaders, like Blatch,\u00a0Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul, were making a determined effort to broaden their coalition and professionalize their strategy. \u00a0They did not prevail, however, at first. New York, for example, rejected a woman’s suffrage measure in 1915. \u00a0But suffragists only redoubled\u00a0their efforts, and in 1917, New York adopted voting rights for women, just about\u00a0three years before the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified in August 1920.<\/p>\n
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