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she is an associate professor of journalism. who was she. she was the sole murder for women's suffrage in the united states. she was the most famous political figure of 1910 and she was the epitome of the new woman it was a really the first feminists of the 21st century. she was a graduate and a lawyer who had to fight to be able to practice she was a free lover. she was a war correspondent. she was a socialist she was an advocate for prostitutes and a person who was the is the underdog.

she also was rich beautiful. and she liked to dance. what time are we talking about. this is 1908 or 1909. she's also a star athlete is extremely popular in the start of the campus. they've just gotten kind of adult in the u.s. they are going out to the streets. the women in the street is quite shocking. and then ascending the teenage years in britain. and so she goes there. they can speak on our women's college campus.

weirdest can educate you. she does not take no for an answer. about 25 students and faculty follow her from campus next door. they're all about freedom and agencies. with personal and professional -- professional fulfillment. the president is. but the press loved it. that is the beginning of the precious love affair. who was her family. just before the potato famine. and then her dad had grown up

in that looks like a new jersey congressman and mentored him. they became have of the editorial. they got involved with the marketing of the e-mail. back then he ran a company with 50 underground systems. have it gotten enough and he was a stock speculator was about a half million dollars for the early 1900. you can imagine what that would be worth today.

with the turn of the century he took his wife and three kids to london. they wanted a life of culture here is really turned off at the time. he hated teddy roosevelt because he felt like he have taken his place he also went to london to try to establish it there. as what is funded there. what happened. they have become the activist. and one of the first thing she

does is get involved. with the fashion of the day it was a skirt and top. under horrible conditions working ten or 11 or 12 hours a day. a number of recent get together and try to keep an eye on them so that the police don't arrest -- harassed them. she actually gets arrested twice and gets that. during this time she also was thinking she is known for a long time that she wants to be

a lawyer. from the first american female. very active in greenwich village. she looks up to them. and tries to get into harvard law school and she says no. they are so going every summer to london. she wants to do good but she also likes living well. and for her she does not want to miss that summerlong social season. she is dating a nobleman and then she comes back. with the socialists as well.

you talked about her as a new one. what does that mean? at that time it was unlike the first generation of women's rights activists in the 19 century they are very earnest and somber. these women are more about professional fulfillment and personal fulfillment. it is the opposite with the true women is supposed to be selfless. and these women who are also at the first generation of women who go to college 40% of them are female. that opens their mind up to new ideas. they want to make the world a better place and beyond that

they also believe in sexual fulfillment and very much about agency and choice and of course that whole decade is a time of rejecting victoria's him and old ways. embracing the new modern ways. it's all about testing everything before. everything has the word new in front of it. they want to try everything. inez milholland went on to live a life of political activism. actually across new york city there would drive around honking their horns and speak

from the backseat. they start to accelerate and take to the streets. and she became famous. usually on horseback and she was an expert horse woman. and stunning also. a lot of the pension she was probably the most visible representative. and as a is a lot of big criticism. they were very masculine. and she was the new condemnation of being quite beautiful and quite physically stunning and really a great speaker. they were comfortable to

speaking with them. and people were just blown away by that. when you say she was famous was she famous within her circle was she in the media would you and i had known about her. she was famous across the country. she really rose to national fame when she is alert who leads them as the first national suffrage parade. this is the place where they go to claim their citizenship. you may have seen the picture of her on her white horse around january 20 because that was the first women's march on washington about 5,000 people. and actually it was much louder than in 2017 because the police were not crazy

about having to control the crowd it occurred on the evening before the integration the first democrat in 20 years i think this is march back then. it's really pretty productive rocket. a white horse. but the crown on her head. she is a couple of hundred yards ahead. all of them mob the women on the floats. so she actually on her horse they broke through the mob.

and then they said they should be ashamed of yourself. they have gone over to fort myers and said we need help. and so they have to come down. and help her make way for the women who struggle for the next two hours were this is all climaxing. why don't we know who inez milholland is today. partly because the larger suffrage group there were the bigger group. by now it's 1917.

they are worthy of the vote. and i should say i should talk about them going across the country. the fact that she died at the age of 30 did that affect her later notoriety. i was gonna say in campaign against wilson because he won't come up for the women's vote. she does on this wild trip by trained to my own --dash wyoming and montana. nobody knows that she is also very sick. at night she comes out and gives us great talk. doctors are giving her arsenic to keep her going.

she collapses on stage in los angeles and it gets twisted around a little bit. the famous last public words. our how much longer must they wait for liberty. she battles and goes up and down. she finally dies on the whole country is following this. when she dies they arrange to have a memorial for her in the u.s. capitol building. she is the only woman in the only person who has ever have a memorial there. she brings the delegation to meet with wilson at the white house to say don't let this woman die in vain. he doesn't. so on january 10, 1917300 american women start picketing the white house. as the first time it's ever

been done by anybody. she is not for that. i think the women's movement became a little bit individualistic. and they were all about that and working towards structural change. but to get back to your question i'm not sure while white they aren't more famous. there is a passionate group of aficionados around the country. why is she not more famous. i think she deserves to be. where do you find the best places for your research. one place surprisingly was a historical society. which i found out in the card

catalog and they hold their father's papers. where he talks about where they die. there was a lot of information about the family there. the national women's party papers they are microfilmed in various places around the country. it just became declared a national park i believe. it's a woman's party headquarters. in grace by the wonderful photograph that was done in the 1920s. that was a wonderful resource.

to look at the family. i actually actually went to the little township. basically bumped into people who probably were related to her and invited me to spend the night. how do you see the grave of bobby sands. with the presence there. it was just really interesting. she teaches journalism here in the city of arizona. the life and times of inez milholland.