Inez
Milholland at the head of the 1913 Washington, D. C. suffrage
parade. The wearing of white for women demonstrators had a
long history in this country beginning with temperance demonstrations
in the 19th century. Some men ridiculed the temperance protestors
in their street demonstrations, saying that women on
the streets must be women of the streets! Temperance
workers began wearing white clothing during their protests
to denote their personal purity and the purity of their cause,
a tradition followed by the suffrage demonstrators after them.
A Herald figure, drawn
by National Woman’s Party political cartoonist Nina Allender,
sounds the trumpet call to already enfranchised women in the
western states. In the 1914 and 1916 elections, the NPW urged
women voters in the West to vote against Woodrow Wilson and
democratic incumbents.
Idealized poster
of Inez Milholland Boissevain produced and circulated by the
National Woman’s Party after her death. The poster uses
the familiar colors purple, white, and gold, and the motto "Forward
Into Light."
Inez Milholland as the
purple and white logo on all National Woman’s Party stationery.
Inez
Milholland at the head of the 1913 Washington, D. C. suffrage
parade. The wearing of white for women demonstrators had a
long history in this country beginning with temperance demonstrations
in the 19th century. Some men ridiculed the temperance protestors
in their street demonstrations, saying that women on
the streets must be women of the streets! Temperance
workers began wearing white clothing during their protests
to denote their personal purity and the purity of their cause,
a tradition followed by the suffrage demonstrators after them.
