1917 when they started picketing the white house they picketed every day except for sunday from don until dusk. thousands of women picketing the white house. women in the work at factories worked every day except for sunday. they didn't have any options. alice paul being the brilliant woman that she was she designated a day factory working women day on a sunday for factory women to go to the white house. it was hugely successful. this banner comes from that day. happened february 1917. a lot of what alice paul did during that time because you wanted to get into the newspapers was to designate days. very simple very straightforward. she had college day and working women days. she had for today, she had pennsylvania day. she had a day where they celebrated bastille day. it was all an effort to keep her fresh and keep it in the papers and finally one of my favorite in the collection that failure is impossible. he comes from a speech that susan b. anthony made in 1906 called failure is impossible which is fairly self-explanatory. the national party of women continually brought up pioneer women in