1919 Suffragettes
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b&w newsreel - no audio - San Francisco, California - suffragettes who served terms in jail tour country in campaign for universal suffrage - get off railroad car of Prison Special train - pan group of suffragettes pose on train dressed in prison dresses or uniforms - they march by train with banner and flags, followed by leaders of the suffrage movement - another shot of same but closer - banner reads Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God - pan of leaders in dark dresses with hats - fashion - wear large ribbons across chest, c/u pin on waist resembles barred door - m/s suffragette speaks - c/u Miss Lucy Burns, leader of the delegation from New York surrounded by other suffragettes - women's right to vote