Mizholland was a contemporary of Mt. Laurel native Alice Paul. Jan. 11 marks Paul’s 131st birthday.
On Wednesday Jan. 11, the South Jersey NOW-Alice Paul Chapter will be showing the film “Inez Milholland-Forward Into Light.”
The speaker will be preceded by a discussion of chapter activities. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. and is held at the First Baptist Church, 19 West Main St., Moorestown (enter via side door closest to municipal parking lot and Carl’s Shoe Store).
Jan. 11 marks the 131st birthday of chapter namesake and Mt. Laurel native Alice Paul. Besides writing the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Paul was the person credited most for women getting the right to vote in 1920.
Another of Paul’s fellow suffragists, Inez Milholland, is less well-known. Milholland was a lawyer, speaker, supporter of labor rights and modern women.
Known as “the lady on the white horse” in 1913 parade organized by Paul, Milholland led 10,000 suffragists to the White House.
Known as the “beautiful suffragist”, Milholland gave herself over to the National Women’s Party and the cause of getting the right to vote.
The message of the “Inez Milholland-Forward into Light” film is that winning the vote was important to women, but equally or more important, is that all women should cast their votes regularly.
