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Collection Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

1921 to 1929

Timeline

  1. 1921

    Feb.

    Last issue of The Suffragist published.

    Feb. 15

    Dedication of Adelaide Johnson's suffrage sculpture, Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, in U.S. Capitol.

    Feb. 15-19

    NWP convention in Washington, D.C., discusses future course for organization. NWP undertakes new campaign to improve women's legal, social, and economic status in United States and world.

    Sept. 23

    Second pageant celebrating 75th anniversary of 1848 Seneca Falls meeting held at Garden of Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

    Apr. 16

    President Warren G. Harding meets with NWP members regarding equal rights bill.

    Adelaide Johnson (left), Dora Lewis, and Jane Addams at the dedication of Johnson's suffrage sculpture Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony in the U.S. Capitol. National Photo Co. February 15, 1921.

  2. 1922

    Feb. 27

    U.S. Supreme Court upholds validity of 19th Amendment.

    Sept. 22

    After intense lobbying by NWP, Congress passes Cable Act, preventing American women from losing their citizenship after marrying aliens.

  3. 1923

    Feb. 17

    First issue of Equal Rights published.

    July 20

    At Seneca Falls, New York, NWP celebrates 75th anniversary of first equal rights convention with pageant and pilgrimage to Susan B. Anthony's grave in Rochester. At general conference, Alice Paul presents draft equal rights amendment for delegates' approval.

    Dec.

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), drafted by Alice Paul, introduced in Congress.

    [Detail] Florence Hanlin as "Justice" in the dance drama presented as part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the Seneca Falls Convention. Bullock Studio. July 20, 1923.

  4. 1924

    June

    NWP members lobby for ERA at Republican and Democratic national conventions. Both parties reject motions to insert ERA plank in their platforms.

    Sept.

    Women For Congress campaign launched.

    [Detail] Members of the first students' "Women for Congress" Conference launch their campaign by flying the NWP colors on a private yacht at Westport-on-Lake Champlain, New York. August 1924.

  5. 1925

    Feb. 4

    NWP participates in first hearings on ERA before House Judiciary Committee.

    June

    Alice Paul organizes International Advisory Committee of NWP.

    Oct.

    Inter-Parliamentary Union of Women meets in Washington, D.C., for conference organized by NWP to discuss international aspects of feminism.

  6. 1926

    Feb.

    NWP revives Women For Congress campaign.

    May 11-12

    Women For Congress conference held in Baltimore.

    June 5

    NWP denied membership in International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

    Colorado members of the NWP in front of the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, during the coast-to-coast Women for Congress campaign. H. L. Standley. April 1926.
    NWP delegation on deck of ship en route to Paris to seek admission into International Woman's Suffrage Alliance. Underwood & Underwood. May 1926.

  7. 1927

    Feb. 15

    NWP deputation meets with President Coolidge.

  8. 1928

    Feb. 18

    NWP assists in establishment of Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW) at Sixth Pan-American Congress in Havana, Cuba.

    June

    At both Republican National Convention in Kansas City and Democratic National Convention in Houston, NWP officers lobby unsuccessfully for ERA planks on platforms.

    Sept.

    IACW representatives in Paris rebuffed in attempt to present equal rights treaty to international delegates assembled to sign Kellogg-Briand Pact. American and British feminists picket conference; arrests and imprisonment generate worldwide publicity.

  9. 1929

    Feb. 1

    NWP members testify at congressional hearings on ERA.

    Apr. 19

    Puerto Rican women granted suffrage subject to literacy testing.

    June

    At Open Door Council meeting in Berlin, NWP members assist in drafting both Charter of Economic Rights for Working Women and Open Door Manifesto.