PART FOUR

VICTORY

I. THE NEW HEADQUARTERS AND THE LATER YEARS 311

II. LOBBYING 317

III. ORGANIZING 327

IV. THE PRESIDENT CAPITULATES AND THE HOUSE 336 SURRENDERS

V. FIGHTING FOR VOTES IN THE SENATE 340

VI. BURNING THE PRESIDENT’S WORDS 355

VII. THE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO THE SENATE TO 366 PASS THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

VIII. PICKETING THE SENATE 372

IX. THE THIRD APPEAL TO THE WOMEN VOTERS 380

X. THE PRESIDENT INCLUDES SUFFRAGE IN HIS 384 CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS

XI. BURNING THE PRESIDENT’S WORDS AGAIN 386

XII. THE WATCH FIRES OF FREEDOM 391

XIII. THE APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT ON HIS 408 RETURN

XIV. THE APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT ON HIS 412 DEPARTURE

XV. THE PRESIDENT OBTAINS THE LAST VOTE AND 415 CONGRESS SURRENDERS

XVI. RATIFICATION 418

XVII. THE LAST DAYS 464

INDEX 477

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Alice Paul Frontispiece

Lucy Burns at the Head of the “Prison Specialists” 16

Why is the Girl from the West Getting all the 76 Attention? Cartoon by Nina Allender

The Suffragist’s Dream. Cartoon by Nina Allender 146

Inez Milholland in the Washington Parade, March 3, 184 1913

Joy Young at the Inez Milholland Memorial Service 188

Wage Earners Picketing the White House, February, 200 1917

The Thousand Pickets try vainly to Deliver Their 204a Resolutions to the President, March 4, 1917

A Thousand Pickets Marching Around the White 204b House, March 4, 1917

Obeying Orders, Washington Police Arresting White 256a House Pickets Before the Treasury Building

The Patrol Wagon Waiting the Arrival of the 256b Suffrage Pickets

Burning the President’s Words at the Lafayette 356a Monument, Washington

A Summer Picket Line 356b

Lucy Branham Burning the President’s Words at the 364b Lafayette Monument

The Russian Envoy Banner, August, 1917 364b

One of the Watchfires of Freedom 396a

A Policeman Scatters the Watchfire 396b

Suffragist Rebuilding the Fire Scattered by the 398a Police

The Last Suffragist Arrested. The Fire Burns On 398b

The Oldest and the Youngest Pickets 448

The Flag Complete 462

Every Good Suffragist the Morning after 470 Ratification. Cartoon by Nina Allender