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Miss Elsie M. Hill, of Conn[ecticut], a Congressional Union picket at the gate of the White House.

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Miss Elsie M. Hill, of Conn[ecticut], a Congressional Union picket at the gate of the White House.

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Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elsie M. Hill, taken outdoors on picket line, wearing wide-brimmed hat with fur trim, coat, fur stole, and tricolor (purple, white, gold) sash.
Elsie Hill, of Norwalk, Conn., was the daughter of Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill of Connecticut. She was a graduate of Vassar College and taught French in a District of Columbia high school. She was a member of the executive committee of the Congressional Union, 1914-15, and later national organizer for the NWP. She was sentenced August 1918 to 15 days in District Jail for speaking at Lafayette Square meeting; in February 1919, she was sentenced to 8 days in Boston for participation in the "welcome" demonstration of President Woodrow Wilson. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 361.

Suffragettes Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 1800s, women worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, and sought to change voting laws in order to allow them to vote. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women. Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, the British colony of New Zealand granted all women the right to vote. Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917; Britain, Germany, Poland in 1918; Austria and the Netherlands in 1919; and the United States in 1920. Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood: "The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena..."

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