How did women suffragettes draw attention to their causes?
In America, they organised petitions, lobbied senators, marched in parades. In the early years of the 20th century, Carrie Chapman Catt pursued a policy of state-by-state ratification of women’s right to vote. During WW1, Alice Paul and her followers adopted a more militant stance, and took to protesting in front of the White House. The suffragettes organised some spectacular events. In California in 1911, they had parades, pageanst, plays and billboards. Volunteers distributed lapel buttons and suffrage baggage stickers and draped everything in sight in yellow (the suffragette colour). The advertising industry invented a “suffragett cracker” and ran “Votes for women” headlines over th emost unlikely copy. In one, a woman appeared to be dropping a cereal biscuit in the ballot box as the ad argued that Shredded Wheat was “a vote for health, happiness and domestic freedom”. The women won. In 1912, in Manhattan, a parade for women’s right to vote attracted 10,000 marchers in a display “th
