Suffrage Songs
by Elizabeth Knight from the recording entitled Songs of the Suffragettes,Folkways
05281 provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Copyright 1958. Used
by Permission.
by Elizabeth Knight from the recording entitled Songs of the Suffragettes,Folkways
05281 provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Copyright 1958. Used
by Permission.
by Elizabeth Knight from the recording entitled Songs of the Suffragettes,Folkways
05281 provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Copyright 1958. Used
by Permission.
by Elizabeth Knight from the recording entitled Songs of the Suffragettes,Folkways
05281 provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Copyright 1958. Used
by Permission.
During the long journey for women’s suffrage, Washington State was in the eyes of
the world as it won and lost the vote for fifty years. Washington women finally
won the vote in 1910. Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
From a passionate speech by former slave Sojourner Truth, given in Akron, Ohio in
1851 at a women’s rights convention. Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
Two very different women were primary players in the struggle for the vote in Washington:
Emma Smith Devoe and May Arkwright Hutton. Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
The Washington Women’s Cook Book, was published in 1908 as a fundraiser for the
Suffrage cause and was dedicated “To the first woman who realized that half of the
human race were not getting a square deal.... Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
Honoring the great abolitionist Frederick Douglas who spoke at the Seneca Falls
Convention, Arthur Denny who almost swayed the Washington territorial legislature
to give women the vote in 1854, and Harry Burn of Tennessee who was convinced by
his mother to change his vote and cast the ballot that ratified the Nineteenth Amendment
on Aug. 18th, 1920. Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
A song sung by the Suffragists, imprisoned at the “workhouse” for protesting in
front of Wilson’s White House. Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
On November 14, 1917, 30 Suffragists in Occoquan Workhouse were beaten, threatened,
and mistreated in what came to be known as the "night of terror." Song by Linda
Allen. Used by Permission.
Inez Milholland was a labor lawyer, public speaker, WWI protester and suffragist
who was known as the martyr of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Despite an illness,
she went on a speaking tour in the West and collapsed while giving a speech in Los
Angeles. She died ten weeks later, Nov. 25, 1916. Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
"Forward out of error, Forward into light" was the motto of the National Woman’s
Party, the young suffragists including Alice Paul, Lucy Burn and Inez Milholland
who revitalized the movement and gained the vote in 1920. The song is a dialogue
between the older women of the movement and the younger women who took up the cause.
Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.
A song parody about those who resisted Suffrage. Linda’s additional verses are aimed
at the women who both benefit from and resist the changes for which our foremothers
struggled. Song by Linda Allen. Used by Permission.