PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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Part I. Leadership Chapter1. A Militant Pioneer—Susan B. Anthony Chapter 2. A Militant General—Alice Paul
Part II. Political Action Chapter 1. Women Invade the Capital Chapter 2. Women Voters Organize Chapter 3. The Last Deputation to President Wilson
Part III. Militancy Chapter 1. Picketing a President Chapter 2. The Suffrage War Policy Chapter 3. The First Arrests Chapter 4. Occoquan Workhouse Chapter 5. August Riots Chapter 6. Prison Episodes Chapter 7. An Administration Protest—Dudley Field Malone Resigns Chapter 8. The Administration Yields Chapter 9. Political Prisoners Chapter 10. The Hunger Strike—A Weapon Chapter 11. Administration Terrorism Chapter 12. Alice Paul in Prison Chapter 13. Administration—Lawlessness Exposed Chapter 14. The Administration Outwitted Chapter 15. Political Results Chapter 16. An Interlude (Seven Months) Chapter 17. New Attacks on the President Chapter 18. The President Appeals to the Senate Too Late Chapter 19. More Pressure Chapter 20. The President Sails Away Chapter 21. Watchfires of Freedom Chapter 22. Burned in Effigy Chapter 23. Boston Militants Welcome the President Chapter 24. Democratic Congress Ends Chapter 25. A Farewell to President Wilson Chapter 26. President Wilson Wins the 64th Vote in Paris Chapter 27. Republican Congress Passes Amendment Appendices
Alice Paul Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont Democrats Attempt to Counteract Woman’s Party Campaign Inez Milholland Boissevain Scene of Memorial Service-Statuary Hall, the Capitol Scenes on the Picket Line Monster Picket—March 4, 1917 Officer Arrests Pickets Women Put into Police Patrol Suffragists in Prison Costume Fellow Prisoners Sewing Room at Occoquan Workhouse Riotous Scenes on Picket Line Dudley Field Malone Lucy Burns Mrs. Mary Nolan, Oldest Picket Miss Matilda Young, Youngest Picket Forty-One Women Face Jail Prisoners Released “Lafayette We Are Here” Wholesale Arrests Suffragists March to LaFayette Monument Torch-Bearer, and Escorts Some Public Men Who Protested Against Imprisonment of Suffragists Abandoned Jail Prisoners on Straw Pallets on Jail Floor Pickets at Capitol Senate Pages and Capitol Police Attack Pickets The Urn Guarded by Miss Berthe Arnold The Bell Which Tolled the Change of Watch Watchfire “Legal” Watchfire Scattered by Police-Dr. Caroline Spencer Rebuilding it One Hundred Women Hold Public Conflagration Pickets in Front of Reviewing Stand, Boston Mrs. Louise Sykes Burning President Wilson’s Speech on Boston Common Suffrage Prisoners
Through Whose Brilliant and Devoted Leadership the Women of America Have Been Able to Consummate with Gladness and Gallant Courage Their Long Struggle for Political Liberty, This Book is Affectionately Dedicated
This book deals with the intensive campaign of the militant suffragists of America [1913-1919] to win a solitary thing-the passage by Congress of the national suffrage amendment enfranchising women. It is the story of the first organized militant ,political action in America to this end. The militants differed from the pure propagandists in the woman suffrage movement chiefly in that they had a clear comprehension of the forces which prevail in politics. They appreciated the necessity of the propaganda stage and the beautiful heroism of those who had led in the pioneer agitation, but they knew that this stage belonged to the past; these methods were no longer necessary or effective.
For convenience sake I have called Part II “Political Action,” and Part III “Militancy,” although it will be perceived that the entire campaign was one of militant political action. The emphasis, however, in Part II is upon political action, although certainly with a militant mood. In Part III dramatic acts of protest, such as are now commonly called militancy, are given emphasis as they acquired a greater importance during the latter part of the campaign. This does not mean that all militant deeds were not committed for a specific political purpose. They were. But militancy is as much a state of mind, an approach to a task, as it is the commission of deeds of protest. It is the state of mind of those who is their fiery idealism do not lose sight of the real springs of human action.
There are two ways in which this story might be told. It might be told as a tragic and harrowing tale of martyrdom. Or it might be told as a ruthless enterprise of compelling a hostile administration to subject women to martyrdom in order to hasten its surrender. The truth is, it has elements of both ruthlessness and martyrdom. And I have tried to make them appear in a true proportion. It is my sincere hope that you will understand and appreciate the martyrdom involved, for it was the conscious voluntary gift of beautiful, strong and young hearts. But it was never martyrdom for its own sake. It was martyrdom used for a practical purpose.
Arthur Conan Doyle
