Alice Paul, circa 1913 in college robes, this is what she wore in the parade when she tried to march in the college women’s section of the Suffrage Procession. CC via LOCEmmaline, Christabel, and Sylvia Pankhurst, circa 1911 CC via wikicommonsOooh, Alice, the places you’ll go! Circa 1900 CC via LOC
SHOWNOTES UNDER CONSTRUCTION, come back in a little bit for more photos and some details from the episode!
Time Travel With The History Chicks
The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Suffs is hitting the road for a national tour! We saw it last fall in New York and LOOOVED it, but relevant to this episode, Alice Paul is the main character and the show focuses on her life and work. If the touring company is in your neighborhood, we strongly recommend you try to see it. (This isn’t sponsored, we just really loved the musical.) SUFFS TOUR DATES
Media recommendations will be on the shownotes for Part Two.
End song: We’re Dynamite by Craig Reever (featuring Willow) used by permission of Epidemic Sound
Georgia Theresa Gilmore was born on February 5, 1920, in Montgomery, Alabama, where she lived and worked her entire life. And,as we explain in the podcast, that life was far from easy. By the time she was in her 20s she had a long list of jobs including laundress, railroad tie-changer, midwife, and the one that she used to solely support her growing household of six children, her mother, and various extended family: a cook.
Katharine, 1976 by Trikosko, Marion S, Library of Congress
Katharine Meyer Graham was born on June 16, 1917, in New York City, the fourth child of Eugene Meyer and Agnes Ernst Meyer. She had a very upper-class upbringing thanks to her incredibly successful investor father who had a second career in politics and a third in newspaper publishing after he purchased the then-failing Washington Post. Katharine’s mother, Agnes, was a powerhouse art patron and philanthropist (with a spicy side of political activism) while maybe not the fuzziest of maternal figures, she was a product of her times and class.
Gertrude, circa 1922 in her WSA sweater via Library of Congress
They said it couldn’t be done; that the deck, and the odds, were stacked against her, but Trudy Ederle listened only to her heart during her record-breaking swim across the English Channel. She was the first woman to accomplish this feat, and her record would hold for another 24 years, but there was a lot more to her life than one phenomenal swim.
