Inez Milholland Boissevain — lawyer, journalist, and social reformer
- Creator(s):
- National Woman’s Party
- Title:
- Inez Milholland Boissevain: Who Died for the Freedom of Women
- Publication/Origin:
- 1924
- Description:
- Lawyer, journalist, socialist, reformer and activist Inez Milholland Boissevain became an icon and martyr for the suffrage movement. She had an electrifying public presence that could move crowds. In 1913, on the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, she mounted a white horse and led 8,000 marchers in a suffrage parade. By 1916, she had become one of the highest-profile leaders of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. While on a grueling speaking tour to twelve western states, she fell ill but refused to cancel her engagements. She collapsed at the podium in Los Angeles and died days later.
- Citation:
- National Woman’s Party, Inez Milholland Boissevain: Who Died for the Freedom of Women, 1924, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed October 05, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4279