Inez Milholland Boissevain: Who Died for the Freedom of Women
Title:
Inez Milholland Boissevain: Who Died for the Freedom of Women
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.
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National Woman’s Party
Date:
1924
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1924
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Inez Milholland Boissevain — lawyer, journalist, and social reformer
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1900s
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