“If You Had Seen Inez” on the CD, Here’s to the Women!
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.
“Emma and May” on the CD, Here’s to the Women! and Washington Notebook.
Two very differet women were primary players in the struggle for the vote in Washington: Emmas Smith Devoe and May Arkwright Hutton. Sung with Janis Carper
“Emma and May” on the CD, Here’s to the Women! and Washington Notebook.
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. You can see the video version of “Here’s to the Women!” here.
It is a bit out of date, but you’ll get the story.