Video URL


13176_6830_womens_suffrage3
Subjects

1900s, 1910, 1967
B&W

Footage from the 1912 National American Women’s Suffrage Associaton’s annual conference in Philadelphia. A crowd of women walking along, some of them carrying signs from different states (”Kansas, Mississippi, etc). Shots of women talking, looking at documents, etc. Stills of women putting up banners and signs with slogans like “help us win the vote”. Shots of women lobbying politicians at their desks. Shots of women marching and protesting in the street.Stills of leaders such as Alice Paul. A panning shot of the white house cupola down to the crowds below during the Nov 1912 election. (Woodrow Wilson won)