Seeing Suffrage: The 1913 Washington Suffrage Parade, Its Pictures, and Its Effects on the American Political Landscape

by James Glen Stovall

On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, leaders of the American suffrage movement organized an enormous march through the capital that served as an important salvo on the long road to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Coinciding with the widespread rise of photography in daily newspapers and significant shifts in journalism, the parade energized a movement that had been in the doldrums for nearly two decades. In Seeing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572339403
• ISBN13: 9781572339408
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.1"