June 2017 – An Adirondacks area PBS station interviewed Martha Wheelock, who produced a 15-minute movie about Inez Milholland Boissevain.Some clips from the Wheelock movie are included.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDryxdQB7As.
INEZ MILHOLLAND BOISSEVAIN – Stories of an American suffragette, who led the 1913 Washington march, championing the black Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her death in 1916 galvanized the National Woman's Party, which launched picketing of Wilson's White House. After arrests of the picketers, and a hunger strike and maltreatment of the prisoners (force-feeding), public opinion changed. Wilson did too, and the 19th Amendment became law in 1920.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
INEZ | Remembering Her in the Adirondacks
June 2017 – An Adirondacks area PBS station interviewed Martha Wheelock, who produced a 15-minute movie about Inez Milholland Boissevain.Some clips from the Wheelock movie are included.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDryxdQB7As.
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