The Struggle Of Women's Suffrage In The United States

Women and Voting Struggles Women have been labeled as inferior to their male counterparts, even today. Although it is not nearly as bad now, there once was a time when they were denied their simple right to vote. It took many influential women, many organizational efforts and the help of men for women to finally get the right to vote.
Suffrage for women was part of a mainstream progressive reform. However, even with all the efforts from well-known suffragists, by 1910 only four states granted women the right to vote. This caused many women to start going to extreme measures to gain what they believed was their right. The suffering that women had to go through to achieve the vote was tremendous. They were told that women’s suffrage was a …show more content…
Alice, along with her partner Lucy Burns, set up a pageant right outside the White House one day before President Woodrow Wilson was to be sworn in to office. Over five thousand suffragists from coast to coast attended the pageant as well as many men. Although the pageant started peacefully, many drunk men started heckling those that were taking part in the pageant and soon a mob started. No arrests were made, and neither the police nor President Wilson helped the women. Alice Paul did not give up, however. A few years later, Alice held a “Perpetual Delegation” around the White House. Protesters participated in were burnings of President Wilson’s speeches and chaining themselves to the White House fences. The protests lasted for only a few days before the police stepped in. They started to arrest the protesters (about 168 women were jailed, quite a few repeatedly.) However, these arrests made the rest of the protesters more determined. The conditions the protestors were put through were horrific, but it showed just how motivated these women were to get the right to