A photograph of fourteen women suffragists in overcoat on pickets line they are holding suffrage banners in front of the white house. One banner reads: “Mr. the President how long women must wait for liberty.”. This event occurred in 1917 with the White house visible in the background.
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I know only a little bit about this period of time where women are working to get the right to vote, but black people were very much disenfranchised, and there didn’t seem to be much in the way of organization to remove the obstacles that were put in the black man’s way.
There are two thoughts I have when I reflect on this post:
I wonder why expanding rights to new segments of the population is always such a source of intense friction, for lack of a better word. Sure, people want to hold on to the power they perceive they hold, but the majority of people can’t be that dumb to think that they will keep that power indefinitely…
It’s a shame that the right to vote wasn’t more universal and that this fight wasn’t framed in a way to see that everyone was able to exercise that right at a voting booth.
I wish that voting was mandatory, myself.
Do you know why these women were protesting? President Woodrow WIlson was president during this time, since you’ve researched this topic do you know if he did anything to slove this problem?