“Beautiful New Jersey Girl, a Settlement Worker, Locked Up as a Suffragette. Her friends indignant.” This January marked two important anniversaries. January 11th was suffragist Alice Paul’s 134th birthday (described in the quotation above, from a clipping in her archive at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library). January 19th witnessed the third annual Women’s March. While contemporary women’s…

Women in New York City have a long history of taking to streets and stages to make their voices heard. The suffrage parades of the 1910s captured the attention of the city and helped convince men that women were engaged citizens who deserved the right to vote. This past weekend, 200,000 women and men again…