For Democracy (1917)
- Title
- For Democracy (1917)
- Description
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In this photo, three suffragists stand in front of the White House holding a banner with a quote from President Woodrow Wilson's address before Congress, calling for a declaration of war against Germany: "We shall fight for things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their government."
One tactic adopted by suffragists was to use the president's own words to highlight the hypocrisy of fighting for democracy abroad while denying it at home. Today, we can see an additional layer of hypocrisy in the deep racial divide that permeated the women's suffrage movement and the ways in which restrictive voting laws prevented Black men from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. - Date
- 1917-07-20
- Author
- Harris & Ewing
- Subject
- Women
- Temporal Coverage
- Territorial Expansion
- Jim Crow Era
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- World War I
- Document Type
- Image
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Archival Source
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-USZ62-48718.
- Contributor
- Kaci Nash
- Title
- For Democracy (1917)
- Description
-
In this photo, three suffragists stand in front of the White House holding a banner with a quote from President Woodrow Wilson's address before Congress, calling for a declaration of war against Germany: "We shall fight for things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their government."
One tactic adopted by suffragists was to use the president's own words to highlight the hypocrisy of fighting for democracy abroad while denying it at home. Today, we can see an additional layer of hypocrisy in the deep racial divide that permeated the women's suffrage movement and the ways in which restrictive voting laws prevented Black men from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. - Date
- 1917-07-20
- Author
- Harris & Ewing
- Subject
- Women
- Temporal Coverage
- Territorial Expansion
- Jim Crow Era
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- World War I
- Document Type
- Image
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Archival Source
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-USZ62-48718.
- Contributor
- Kaci Nash