{"id":2528,"date":"2017-10-28T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2017-10-28T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:33:53","slug":"one-hundred-years-ago-today-october-28-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Years Ago Today, October 28, 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2530\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2530\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?attachment_id=2530\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue_1917.jpg?fit=615%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"615,384\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;The New York Times&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Suffragists parade down Fifth Avenue, 1917.\\nAdvocates march in October 1917, displaying placards containing the signatures of more than one million New York women demanding the vote.\\n\\nThe New York Times Photo Archives&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1153749396&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue_1917\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Suffragists parade down Fifth Avenue, 1917.&lt;br \/&gt;\nAdvocates march in October 1917, displaying placards containing the signatures of more than one million New York women demanding the vote.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The New York Times Photo Archives&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue_1917.jpg?fit=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue_1917.jpg?fit=600%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2530\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue_1917.jpg?resize=300%2C187&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue_1917.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue_1917.jpg?w=615&amp;ssl=1 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">S<em>uffragists parade down Fifth Avenue, 1917.<\/em><br \/><em>Advocates march in October 1917, displaying placards containing the signatures of more than one million New York women demanding the vote.<\/em><br \/><em>The New York Times Photo Archives<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>One hundred years ago today, October 28, 1917, the <em>New York Times<\/em> reported that 20,000 people marched in a parade in New York City in support of woman suffrage, including 500 men. With the date of the vote on an amendment to the NY State Constitution giving women the vote (November 6, 1917) coming closer, the suffragists stepped up their act.\u00a0The <em>Times<\/em> reported: \u201cThousands of persons packed the sidewalks on both sides of the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue from Washington Square to 59<sup>th<\/sup> Street to cheer the marchers.\u201d Banners held aloft proclaimed: \u201cWe shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Government,\u201d and \u201cOur sons are fighting for democracy. In the name of democracy give us the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> further reported: \u201cWomen of all ages, from the nearly feeble to the vigorously youthful walked side by side \u2013all seemingly fired by enthusiasm for their cause.\u201d Women from other nations joined as well, from Finland, France, Japan, Russia and England. Marchers from Long Island included Helen Sherman Pratt, Florence Gibb Pratt, Katrina Ely Tiffany, and Miss Edith Pratt. Professional women included doctors, nurses, sculptors, teachers and authors.\u00a0The parade continued down 5<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue for two hours and 40 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago today, October 28, 1917, the New York Times reported that 20,000 people marched in a parade in New York City in support of woman suffrage, including 500 men. With the date of the vote on an amendment to the NY State Constitution giving women the vote (November 6, 1917) coming closer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3G1zV-EM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}