Allison Lange - Images of the Women's Suffrage Movement

In this lecture, Professor Allison K. Lange details the imagery representing women’s suffrage throughout American History. Starting with modern portrayals that evoke imagery of the past, Lange then reaches back to the founding era and makes her way through the 19th century in the lead-up to the 19th Amendment’s ratification. Through covering illustrations and photographs of pro-suffrage and anti-suffrage sensibilities, she weaves a complete story of this history using only images. Allison K. Lange, author of Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement (2020), is a professor, curator, and speaker. Currently teaching at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, Lange is an expert on the history of women’s suffrage in the United States. Key timestamps 0:35 How images of the Women’s Suffrage Movement are used today 5:23 Early Images Representing Women in American History: Phillip Dawe’s “A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, in North Carolina” 1775 8:30 19th Century Images of the Women’s Movement 12:15 Civil War Era Imagery of Women: Women’s Dress representing weakness and anti-suffrage cartoons 16:20 How Suffragettes used Carte De Visite Images to spread their message (Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony) 22:41 Mimicking the popular masculine and political imagery of the time in History of Woman Suffrage (1881) 25:45 Suffragettes change tactics, emphasizing women as mothers, fashionable. 28:58 Women of Color Representing Themselves in the Women’s Suffrage Movement 32:51 Early 20th Century Photographs of the Movement/Protests 37:07 Suffragette Imagery Meets World War 1 Find all of the sources mentioned here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y... Check out these similar videos to learn more about the Women's Suffrage Movement: The historic women’s suffrage march on Washington:    • The historic women’s suffrage march on Was...   The Surprising Road to Women's Suffrage:    • The Surprising Road to Women's Suffrage   STAY CONNECTED Follow the American Social History Project on Twitter at @ASHP_CML Keep up to date with the American Social History Project by signing up for our newsletter here: https://cuny.us2.list-manage.com/subs... Questions? Ideas? Feedback? Let us know in the comments.