Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession

Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession

This piece is about the Women’s Suffrage Movement. It is a poster for the procession that was occurring on March 3, 1913, in Washington, D.C. This specific poster was created by Benjamin Dale, an English composer. The poster was created as a way to promote the...
Christmas Carol For Homeless Children

Christmas Carol For Homeless Children

  Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison was among Claude Debussy’s last works and was written as Christmas was around the corner. The song was created both as a lament of the poor children’s situation as well as a vessel with which to criticize the war. At...
Youngest Parader in New York City Suffragist Parade

Youngest Parader in New York City Suffragist Parade

The image before you was taken on May 4th, 1912, at a women’s suffrage parade in New York City. The photo depicts a parade of women marching up 5th Avenue from Washington Square to Carnegie Hall. The parade is one of the two that took place in New York in 1912;...

For Every Fighter a Woman Worker

The historical source displayed above is a propaganda poster created in 1918 during World War I by the artist Ernest Hamlin Baker. The poster shows a parade of women dressed in masculine uniforms, holding traditional men’s tools such as an axe, with the title,...

World War I Cartoon by Sava Zlachkin

Ethan Shonk Prof. Fieldston American History 2 14 December 2023 We Shall Overcome Speech             The speech, referred to as “We Shall Overcome,” was given to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965. In the speech, President Johnson urged the...