Inez Milholland

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Inez Milholland (around 1911)
Inez Milholland at the women's rights parade on March 3, 1913

Inez Milholland Boissevain (born August 6, 1886 in Brooklyn , † November 25, 1916 in Los Angeles ) was an American suffragette ( women's rights activist ), war correspondent and labor law attorney . She had a huge impact on the United States' women's rights movement. Milholland was a member of the National Woman's Party , the aim of which was to enforce the right to vote for women . She co-organized a major women's rights parade on March 3, 1913 in Washington, DC

Family and education

Milholland spent her childhood in Brooklyn. She was the eldest daughter of John Elmer and Jean (Torrey) Milholland. The wealthy parents had another daughter (Vida) and a son (John). John Elmer Milholland was an editorial writer and reporter for the New York Tribune . Inez Milholland attended Grammar School in New York City . She graduated from high school in London . In Berlin she attended the Willard School. In the USA she then attended Vassar College . After graduating there, she tried to get a law degree at Yale , Harvard , Cambridge and Columbia University . She was rejected at all four universities because of her gender. So she eventually attended New York University's law school , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1912 . In 1913 she married Eugen Jan Boissevain (1880–1949).

Professional career

Milholland worked in various professions. After graduating, she joined a law firm and handled criminal and divorce cases. In one of her first cases, she investigated the conditions of detention at Sing Sing , a maximum security prison in New York. At the time, contact between women and male inmates was frowned upon, but Millholland insisted on interviewing inmates personally to uncover the poor conditions in prison.

At the beginning of the First World War , Milholland worked as a war correspondent from Italy. Her war-critical articles were censored by the Italian government and ultimately led to Milholland's expulsion from Italy.

Suffragette parade on March 3, 1913

On March 3, 1913 a day before the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson , Milholland rode with long white robe and a crown of stars on her head on a white horse at the head of suffragette parade in Washington. Over 5,000 suffragettes moved from the Capitol to the Treasury . When Wilson got to Washington that day, hardly anyone "noticed his automobile as it roared through the quiet streets and few applauded when he got to his hotel," wrote the New York Times . A disappointed Wilson is said to have asked: "Where are all the people?"

death

On October 23, 1916, Milholland collapsed during a speech against Woodrow Wilson in Los Angeles as a result of pernicious anemia . From October 25, she was treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital and died there on November 25, 1916.

literature

Web links

Commons : Inez Milholland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inaugurations in the United States: Angry Women, Dead Pigeons, Diarrhea. In: Spiegel Online photo gallery. January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ Lynne E. Ford: Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics. Infobase Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4381-1032-5 , p. 309 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Inez Milholland - Vassar College Encyclopedia. In: vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ John Simkin: Eugen Boissevain. In: spartacus-educational.com. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  5. ^ Marilyn Elizabeth Perry. "Boissevain, Inez Milholland" ; American National Biography Online. Feb. 2000.
  6. ↑ Linda Lumsden, Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland , pp. 120-130.
  7. ↑ Women march - but who is a woman? In: diepresse.com. January 20, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Katja Iken: Memorable Inaugurations: Congratulations, Mr President - the breakdown parade. In: Spiegel Online . January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  9. ^ Ann Marie Nicolosi: "The Most Beautiful Suffragette": Inez Milholland and the Political Currency of Beauty1 . In: The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era . tape 6 , no. 3 , July 1, 2007, ISSN  1943-3557 , p. 287-309 , doi : 10.1017 / S1537781400002103 .
personal data
SURNAME Milholland, Inez
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milholland Boissevain, Inez (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1916
Place of death los Angeles