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Seeing Suffrage: The 1913 Washington Suffrage Parade, Its Pictures, and Its Effects on the American Political Landscape
James Glen Stovall. Seeing Suffrage: The 1913 Washington Suffrage Parade, Its Pictures, and Its Effects on the American Political Landscape. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2013.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Curated Photos/Ephemera, Pageants and Parades
Seeing Suffrage chronicles the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, focusing on photographs from the parade.
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 Suffrage, James G. Stovall combines a detailed account of the parade with more than 130 photographs to provide a stunning visual chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in the struggle for women’s rights.
You can purchase a copy of the book from its publisher’s website.
For more on the parade, see The Atlantic‘s Pictures of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade, this academic article examining suffrage parades from 1910-1913, as well as this New York Tribune essay explaining why suffragists were parading, penned by Harriet Stanton Blatch (daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
ISBN: 978-1-57233-940-8
