street speaking, and demonstrations.. adopt even more aggressive tactics.

[SoCalDem]

Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman's Party Suffrage Campaign
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Women%27s%20History



http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/tactics.html

Founded in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU), the National Woman’s Party (NWP) was instrumental in raising public awareness of the women’s suffrage campaign. Using a variety of tactics, the party successfully pressured President Woodrow Wilson, members of Congress, and state legislators to support passage of a 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women nationwide the right to vote. In so doing, the NWP established a legacy defending the exercise of free speech, free assembly, and the right to dissent.

The NWP effectively commanded the attention of politicians and the public through its aggressive agitation, relentless lobbying, clever publicity stunts, and creative examples of civil disobedience and nonviolent confrontation. Its tactics were versatile and imaginative, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources–including the British suffrage campaign, the American labor movement, and the temperance, antislavery, and early women’s rights campaigns in the United States.

Traditional lobbying and petitioning were a mainstay of NWP members, but these activities were supplemented by other more public actions–including parades, pageants, street speaking, and demonstrations. The party eventually realized that it needed to escalate its pressure and adopt even more aggressive tactics. Most important among these was picketing the White House over many months, leading to the arrest and imprisonment of many suffragists.

The willingness of NWP pickets to be arrested, their campaign for recognition as political prisoners rather than as criminals, and their acts of civil disobedience in jail shocked the nation and brought attention and support to their cause. Through constant agitation, the NWP effectively compelled President Wilson to support a federal woman suffrage amendment. Similar pressure on national and state legislators led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.


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sitting back & waiting will not "win the day".. these women understood that:)

[asdjrocky]

1. Those Ironed Jawed Angles rocked!

People who held up signs have brought about change many times. Thanks for the reminder.

[pnorman]

6. "Ironed Jawed Angels"

Anyone here who hasn't seen that video, please do so PRONTO! You won't regret it.

[asdjrocky]

8. Oops, that's my worst mis-spelling thingie.

And yeah, fantastic movie.

[SteppingRazor]

2. I love the one guy in the middle of that crowd with the huge grin on his face.

Don't know why, he just makes me laugh.

[asdjrocky]

4. Looks like a very smart man to me.

[roseBudd]

3. PM me to find out how I fight back everday...

before I go to work, on my lunch break, after work, on the weekends...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. We've gotten too soft. :(

If ever a time called for massive civil disobedience, it was the eight years under Bush. But we essentially rolled over and played dead. We forgot how to put the fear of god into our politicians -- and they know how weak we are.

[Echo In Light]

7. k/r