Audio Podcast #5. “Playing Politics with the President.” The fifth podcast in the series.

This next audio podcast of two minutes showcases the determination of the suffragists in 1913. In this segment, the women are on their fifth deputation to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to appeal for his support in the ongoing campaign for votes for women.

They pulled strings to put together a deputation where the President couldn’t refuse their ongoing appeal. Their message: We will not give up! Although the writer Doris Stevens (1892-1963) in her book, Jailed for Freedom, didn’t attend the meeting with Wilson, her commentary captures the spirit of the event. Anna Howard Shaw, by then a suffrage elder, pressed Wilson to come out for the federal amendment. He continued resisting. All of this pressure would eventually have the suffragists conclude that hard ball would be the only way to play. Audio production by Suffrage Wagon News Channel. Audio by Librivox. Reading by J.M Smallheer. Photo is of Doris Stevens, author of Jailed for Freedom.

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In Podcast #4 of “Playing Politics with the President” Woodrow Wilson took a baby step. But more pressure would be necessary. When the suffragists appealed to the Democratic Party, they considered their advantages and disadvantages. “We cannot wait,” the activists said.

“Playing Politics with the President”: Podcast #1. Podcast #2. Podcast #3. Podcast #4. Podcast #5 of the nine-audio podcast series.

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