Author Louise Bernikow will trace the places, characters, and tactics involved in winning the vote for women in New York. The battle for female suffrage played out against the city landscape with more drama than anything mounted on the Broadway stage. Filling Fifth Avenue with marchers, Union Square with leafletters, Carnegie Hall with speechifiers, and surrounding the Statue of Liberty with demonstrators in small boats, suffragists left no corner of the city untouched. The tale features American aristocrats like Alva (Vanderbilt) Belmont, world-famous actress Lillian Russell, feminist royalty Harriot Stanton Blatch, flamboyant stockbroker/presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull and labor organizer Rose Schneiderman, all allied with thousands of "anonymous" city residents, college students, immigrant garment workers, and working women.
New York City, NY; NYC