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Inez Milholland Boissevain Who Died for the Freedom of Women, Original American Suffrage Poster

Inez Milholland Boissevain Who Died for the Freedom of Women, Original American Suffrage Poster

  • ca 1917
  • 11 x 14 inches ~ (27 x 35 cm)
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  • Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916) was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America. She was active in the National Woman's Party and a key participant in the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913.

    The image in this poster is Milholland, at the age of 27, in her most memorable appearance, the March 3, 1913 suffrage parade in Washington D.C. 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 "Gray Dawn.

    May 7, 1911 she marched in her first Suffrage parade holding a sign that read, "Forward, out of error, Leave behind the night, Forward through the darkness, Forward into light!" this motto is echoed in the banner she carries in the poster.

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