国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 10月20日 19時40分

This cloth scrap may be small, but it tells an immense story. This fragment was once part of a banner raised by a woman protesting for the right to vote. ??✊️✅ 100 years ago today, Alice Paul and other suffragists from the National Women's Party (NWP) were arrested in Washington, D.C., for picketing the White House in support of woman suffrage. Paul, the leader of the NWP, was sentenced to seven months in jail.
The NWP's White House protests began nine months earlier. Discouraged by President Woodrow Wilson’s opposition to the suffrage amendment, the NWP posted pickets at his White House gates—becoming the first people to ever picket the White House. As "silent sentinels," the picketers stayed on duty in all weather, facing threats, taunts, and physical violence. Many were arrested and jailed.
This scrap was part of a banner that read "Kaiser Wilson Have You Forgotten Your Sympathy With the Poor Germans Because They Were Not Self-Governed? 20,000,000 American Women Are Not Self-Governed. Take the Beam Out of Your Own Eye." It was seized by the District of Columbia police after the suffragists clashed with an angry crowd on August 13, 1917. Later, the fabric scrap made its way into the belongings of Alice Paul. It was donated to us in 1987.
Swipe right to see two historic photos of the 1917 protests from the Library of Congress.
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