With Courage and Cloth

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With Courage and Cloth

• Winning the Fight For A Womans Right To Vote

Author . . .Ann Bausum
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The Introduction

• The story begins with introducing the main
  character, Alice Paul. Her greatest influence for
  becoming a womens right activist is the stories
  she was once told about Abigail Adams and Susan
  B. Anthony.

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The Morals and Ethics

• Women recollected on stories of war and generals.
  They decided that instead of taking up guns and
  swords, they would arm themselves with courage
  and cloth. . .

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The Parade. . .

• On Monday, March 3rd 1913, Alice Paul organized a
  parade that would become the turning point for
  the right for women to vote. It was the day
  before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. As
  many as 8,000 women showed up with floats and
  banners in hope of catching much media attention.
  The parade ended with the spectators attacking
  the women marchers.

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The Struggle. . .

• The fight for womens suffrage extended through
  many generations. Actually New Jersey was the
  first and only state to allow women to vote until
  it was banned in 1807.

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The Momentum. . .

• Women were tortured for the vile thought of
  protesting. Women actually went on hunger strikes
  and were arrested and force fed through a tube in
  their nose.

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The Suffrage. . .

• Prior to the 19th Amendment, only a few states
  would allow limited elections to women. Many did
  not allow any voting at all!

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The Protests

• Instead of calling out their demands in the midst
  of the protests, the would make banners and the
  women were to be silent sentinels.

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Prison Time. . .

• Many people did not agree with the protests. Most
  states would just simply throw the women in
  prison for the disruption.