this is actually from an article in the suffragist itself. the young are at the gates and will take out basically the stodgy conservative forcers that will keep women from voting. arguments for women's suffrage. "working women need the vote" something about as basic as you can get. this is our cause. this is what we need. failure is impossible. susan b. anthony's final conviction about suffrage. and of course the motto. "forward out of darkness, leave behind the night. forward out of error, forward into light." and the great demand. we demand an amendment to the constitution of the united states enfranchising women, the women of the country. and this is from the 1913 parade when the banner is very large and in a float. this is one of the versions that would have been used at rallies and hung in the sewall-belmont house. this is actually the smithsonian's copy or version of the banner that we acquired last year. all of these banners would have been used in a variety of public forums. and th stirring sight. but as shocking as the sight of women

this is the banner that pretty much did it for the suffragists. after the russian envoy banner, actually they were told that arrests would be made. and arrests were started that june. women were taken into custody for obstructing trfi

the federal amendment. allen der was one of those suffragists, whereas some critics of the movement identified the suffragists as propaganda and allen der as a key prop ganist. was "infinitely more familiar to voters than the tariff, the currency or conservation and had reached its political stage. thus there existed no need for propaganda. rather, the suffragist was designed to inform subscribers about events surrounding state xaps and provide them with facts involving the positions of women such asthma ternl workforce statistics. her cartoons invited readers to look beyond political rhetoric and explore these facts. the people in her cartoons seldom morphed into figures of fantasy with animal-like features and mannerisms popular then and now among political cartoonists. allender drew reality. destitute mothers holding hungry children, jailed and beaten picketers, and suffragists campaigning for change. she had not experienced poverty but she had lived through her husband leaving her. abandoned but not alone, allender threw herself into the suffrage movement through local clubs in washington, d.c. and met in

of her work with the suffragist, dorr wrote i published in the paper every scrap of news. and there was always news. accounts of the deputations we sent to the president and aggressive editorials. she and paul worked long hours and did not always see eye to eye. i think that's an understatement. they fought. and they realized after a year that the professional relationship would simply not work. dorr resigned as editor but stayed immensely committed to the fight for a federal amendment. a unique quality of the suffragist was its attention to middle and working class women as readers. and the traumas endured by working poor women and their children. it is here that allender's work can be best highlighted. allender drew for women about women. fellow suffragist inez haynes irwin described allender as having "a keen political sense." i'm going to quote at length from here because it really sums up the unique quality allender brought to her political cartoons. she wrote allender's translated this aspect in the terms of the women alone can best appreciate. her work is full of th

the suffragists as kyle said they are of their period. so one of these banners, the one on the right, actually that's my right, your left. no, your right. the banner on the right -- sorry about that -- discusses the fact that in the civil war women put aside suffrage. they were told that now was the time for the negro. and they accepted that. now they're asking as i said woodrow wilson had been talking about the jones act to give citizenship to puerto ricans. now they're asking if they would be put aside now for the puerto rican man. "when is the woman's time?" and contrasting wilson to lincoln. woodrow wilson finally endorsed a national suffrage amendment. but he didn't push for it very hard. and again, they escalated. this is lafayette park. and the colors came out. and they burned woodrow wilson's words. they got up to speak, and every time someone got up to speak they were arrested and taken away. so they started the watch fires. every day in front of the white house, they were saying -- explaining that man who is deceiving the world b

biographer, you seem to specialize in rescuing misunderstood women like mary todd lincoln and the american suffragist and now margaret sanger, and so i would love for you to talk a bit more about the current effort to rewrite history as you know it relates to her life in particular, the accusations against her, with her eugenics. >> i think there is a continuity in terms of the criticism of sanger, not what is said about her so much, but she grew up, when she began to birth the birth control movement, knowing that she really would be criticized by the world, and so she was at the beginning. the criticisms at the beginning when i compare them to what is going on today, were similar in that they loath suggest -- on the part of those who are made in the criticisms. in the first case, those who oppose sanger on the basis of her movement for birth control, most of them were arguing that birth control would lead to promiscuity and of course we are not talking about men here. we are talking about women and that is especially ignorant and foolish kind of criticism. umbrellas don't ring rain, today? and so --

they're alibi he's like well all hope you all pretty much stayed like he said on the newspaper that they attack dogs and suffragist there because they were training we never have attack dogs there anything we have police occasionally but they were like all locking the doors and stuff i don't think that's training it's going to be tough though being a principal and you know caring about the kids in the school on the one hand and then having some some crackpots on the school board reps we have the authority to fire you on the other i think he's just trying to appeal to who he's talking to at the time when he's talking for the board he's saying oh well yeah that is a bad thing we did wrong but then when he talks to us he's appealing saying yeah we did very well there and what is. it is an activist group for students. what we do is we discuss issues in the world internationally. we discuss things like a dream act. we just try to get together and just. he is after school yes i'm sorry. and we have we just talk about things that go wrong and things that we try to help with and what role did that group play in this war a

also should mention the title, the activist who saved nature from the conservationist really he alludes to her prior life as a suffragist. she was an officer in the new york suffrage party under carry chapman who taught her how to say things that were unpleasant to men and did that in the conservation movement where there was a way of doing things in her way of doing things was not the way that she had identified with these beleaguered slaughtered birds of prey for reasons i sound in the suitcase and she took them on and saved them and we have them today. so there were letters from her husband to her, letters to her mother from china where she was living with her husband and letters from her mother to her father from her father to her mother, beautiful letters written in longhand, beautiful envelopes that are probably worth more than our house and they are not in the suitcase right now. but what is in the suitcase is something that was quite touching. not in the conservation movement which is why people are stunned when they read the subtitles but she learned it from being a separatist. she wore these banners while you