Many suffrage parades were embellished with pageants, or mini dramas and tableaus. During the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. the procession came to a stop in front of the U.S. Treasury building and more than 100 women performed “The…
Poster depicting the "Cat and Mouse Act", a nickname for a law that allowed the early release of prisoners whose health had declined (in this case, arrested suffragettes protesting with hunger strikes), with the understanding that they would serve…