President Wilson Says Votes for Women
Nina E. Allender · 1917
Why it's great
A cartoon by Nina Allender, the cartoonist of Alice Paul's National Woman's Party, shows suffragists behind bars after being arrested for picketing outside the White House in 1917. They had held signs asking President Wilson 'How long must women wait for liberty?'
🏛️ Part of history
Votes for Women (1848–1928) — A cartoon by Nina Allender, the cartoonist of Alice Paul's National Woman's Party, shows suffragists behind bars after being arrested for picketing outside the White House in 1917.
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Nina Evans Allender was an American cartoonist born in Auburn, New York, in 1873. She was the official cartoonist of the National Woman's Party and drew hundreds of cartoons for the fight for women's right to vote. She lived in Washington, D.C., and died in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1957.
