Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women's Suffrage
Text by Linda J. Lumsden.
A multifaceted meditation on a pioneer of American suffrage, through photography, writing and ephemera
In 1916, Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886–1916) embarked on a grueling campaign across the Western US on behalf of the National Women’s Party appealing for women’s suffrage ahead of the 1916 presidential election. Standing Together, by artist Jeanine Michna-Bales (born 1971), retraces Milholland’s journey. The 30-year-old suffragist delivered some 50 speeches to standing-room-only crowds in eight states in 21 days: Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, Nevada and California. She battled chronic illness and lack of sleep during her travels and died a month after her last speech in Los Angeles, where her final public words were, “Mr. President, how long must this go on, no liberty?”
Through her photographs, combining dramatic landscapes and historical reenactments of important vignettes of Milholland on her journey with archival materials, Michna-Bales captures a glimpse of the monumental effort required to pass the 19th Amendment.
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"Women Hold Up Half of the Sky" (2019) is reproduced from Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women's Suffrage,MW Editions’ new collection of recent and historic photographs, quotations and painstakingly researched archival materials by Jeanine Michna-Bales. At a time when voting rights are at the absolute forefront of national debate, this book—which retraces the pioneering women’s suffrage advocate Inez Milholland Boissevain’s grueling 1916 campaign across the Western US—conveys both immediately and poetically the heroic effort required to pass the 19th Amendment. In fact, Inez Milholland Boissevain gave her life for the cause. “Although the principle of equal rights is enshrined in America’s founding documents,” Michna-Bales writes, “those rights have historically been reserved for certain groups—mainly white men—and have been violently withheld from many people, most grievously from immigrants and Black and indigenous Americans.… It is clear that we still have work to do. And as Inez would have wished, I truly hope that we all continue to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, using our voices with courage and devotion as we move ‘forward out of error’ and ‘forward into light.’” continue to blog
Jeanine Michna-Bales: Standing Together Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women's Suffrage
Published by MW Editions. Text by Linda J. Lumsden.
A multifaceted meditation on a pioneer of American suffrage, through photography, writing and ephemera
In 1916, Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886–1916) embarked on a grueling campaign across the Western US on behalf of the National Women’s Party appealing for women’s suffrage ahead of the 1916 presidential election. Standing Together, by artist Jeanine Michna-Bales (born 1971), retraces Milholland’s journey. The 30-year-old suffragist delivered some 50 speeches to standing-room-only crowds in eight states in 21 days: Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, Nevada and California. She battled chronic illness and lack of sleep during her travels and died a month after her last speech in Los Angeles, where her final public words were, “Mr. President, how long must this go on, no liberty?”
Through her photographs, combining dramatic landscapes and historical reenactments of important vignettes of Milholland on her journey with archival materials, Michna-Bales captures a glimpse of the monumental effort required to pass the 19th Amendment.
