I.The Perpetual Delegation[193]
1. The Peaceful Picketing[193]
2. The Peaceful Reception[212]
3. The War on Pickets[220]
4. The Court and the Pickets[259]
5. The Strange Ladies[261]
II.Telling the Country[292]
III.More Pressure on Congress[299]

PART FOUR

VICTORY

I.The New Headquarters and the Later Years[311]
II.Lobbying[317]
III.Organizing[327]
IV.The President Capitulates and the House Surrenders[336]
V.Fighting for Votes in the Senate[340]
VI.Burning the President’s Words[355]
VII.The President Appeals to the Senate to Pass the Suffrage Amendment[366]
VIII.Picketing the Senate[372]
IX.The Third Appeal to the Women Voters[380]
X.The President Includes Suffrage in His Campaign for Congress[384]
XI.Burning the President’s Words Again[386]
XII.The Watch Fires of Freedom[391]
XIII.The Appeal to the President on His Return[408]
XIV.The Appeal to the President on His Departure[412]
XV.The President Obtains the Last Vote and Congress Surrenders[415]
XVI.Ratification[418]
XVII.The Last Days[464]
Index[477]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Alice Paul[Frontispiece]
Lucy Burns at the Head of the “Prison Specialists”[16]
Why is the Girl from the West Getting all the Attention? Cartoon by Nina Allender[76]
The Suffragist’s Dream. Cartoon by Nina Allender[146]
Inez Milholland in the Washington Parade, March 3, 1913[184]
Joy Young at the Inez Milholland Memorial Service[188]
Wage Earners Picketing the White House, February, 1917[200]
The Thousand Pickets try vainly to Deliver Their Resolutions to the President, March 4, 1917[204a]
A Thousand Pickets Marching Around the White House, March 4, 1917[204b]
Obeying Orders, Washington Police Arresting White House Pickets Before the Treasury Building[256a]
The Patrol Wagon Waiting the Arrival of the Suffrage Pickets[256b]
Burning the President’s Words at the Lafayette Monument, Washington[356a]
A Summer Picket Line[356b]
Lucy Branham Burning the President’s Words at the Lafayette Monument[364b]
The Russian Envoy Banner, August, 1917[364b]
One of the Watchfires of Freedom[396a]
A Policeman Scatters the Watchfire[396b]
Suffragist Rebuilding the Fire Scattered by the Police[398a]
The Last Suffragist Arrested. The Fire Burns On[398b]
The Oldest and the Youngest Pickets[448]
The Flag Complete[462]
Every Good Suffragist the Morning after Ratification. Cartoon by Nina Allender[470]

PART ONE

1913 and 1914