Also, in the movie, Alice Paul is seen marching with other women wearing a graduation gown, this is historically accurate. Marchers who received a higher education wore graduation gowns to the parade. According to the transcript of “Conversations with Alice Paul,” Paul earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In the movie, women are grouped by occupation; nurses, farmers, homemakers, doctors and pharmacists, actresses, librarians, college graduates in academic gowns. In reference to image 3 this is historically accurate. In the image, a group of women can be seen wearing graduation gowns, and behind them there are nurses wearing their uniforms. Many marcher were ridiculed, jostled, and assaulted by men in the sidelines. As stated in the official program, the people were urged to “march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.” Not only women responded to this call for protest, men were at the protest too. Men can be seen marching with women in image
Also, in the movie, Alice Paul is seen marching with other women wearing a graduation gown, this is historically accurate. Marchers who received a higher education wore graduation gowns to the parade. According to the transcript of “Conversations with Alice Paul,” Paul earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In the movie, women are grouped by occupation; nurses, farmers, homemakers, doctors and pharmacists, actresses, librarians, college graduates in academic gowns. In reference to image 3 this is historically accurate. In the image, a group of women can be seen wearing graduation gowns, and behind them there are nurses wearing their uniforms. Many marcher were ridiculed, jostled, and assaulted by men in the sidelines. As stated in the official program, the people were urged to “march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.” Not only women responded to this call for protest, men were at the protest too. Men can be seen marching with women in image