Suffrage parade
featuring "pioneers" of the movement riding in an
old-fashioned carriage. Behind the carriage, a group of women
carry a banner lettered "Mothers Prepare Children for the
World. Let Mothers Prepare the World for the Children."
This graphic, which originally
appeared in the October 1915 New York Evening Journal,
was reprinted in the National Woman’s Party’s Suffragist
magazine, a rare use of the motherhood claim by the NWP.
An equally
unusual use of the motherhood rationale for political equality
by the National Woman’s Party appeared on a later cover
of their magazine. After winning the vote, the NWP turned its
energies toward the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment and
changed the name of their journal from Suffragist to
Equal Rights.
