Inez Milholland:Women's Right to Vote Traditional Cache
Inez Milholland:Women's Right to Vote
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INEZ MILHOLLAND BOISSEVAIN, a prominent New York suffragist and attorney, became a symbol of the work and sacrifice that went into winning Votes for Women. Inez was only 30 when she collapsed on a Los Angeles stage during a grueling 1916 speaking tour for equal suffrage. Her death on November 25 of pernicious anemia saddened, angered, and inspired her fellow suffragists, who began picketing the White House on January 10, 1917, just weeks after her memorial in the U.S. Capitol. Milholland stepped into her first suffrage parade on May 7, 1911. She held a sign that read, "Forward, out of error,/Leave behind the night,/Forward through the darkness,/Forward into light!" Milholland quickly became the beautiful face of the suffrage movement. The New York Sun stated that "No suffrage parade was complete without Inez Milholland." She led many parades in 1911, 1912, and 1913. In March 1913, at the age of 27, Milholland made her most memorable appearance, as she helped organize the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington D.C., which took place the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. She led the parade wearing a crown and a long white cape while riding atop a large white horse named "Omen." Milholland believed that women should have the right to vote because of the traits that were unique to women. She argued that women would metaphorically become the "house-cleaners of the nation." She believed women's votes could remove social ills such as sweatshops, tenements, prostitution, hunger, poverty, and child mortality. She told men that they should not worry about the women in their lives as they were extending their sacred rights and duties to the whole country rather than inside the home. Even though she spoke of these issues, she was always disappointed that she was better known for her looks than her brains. I left a silver dollar on her grave- see picture- remember that so many things can change if we fight for what is right. Let me know if the silver dollar is still there when you go visit!
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