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Biographical Sketch of Vida Milholland
By Susan Goodier, History Lecturer, SUNY Oneonta
Vida Milholland was born on January 17, to the philanthropist John E. Milholland and his wife Jean Torry. Her older sister, Inez Milholland, is much better known for her work for the suffrage movement. Vida, like her sister, studied at Vassar where she, too, challenged “anti-feminist” college president James Taylor. Vida had aspirations of a career in opera rather than in social activism, and debuted in However, she gave up her singing career to work for the suffrage movement.
Recovering from a love affair with Frederic Howe, husband of Jenny Maria Howe, the founder of Heterodoxy, Vida agreed to travel with Inez when she toured the west. Alice Paul organized the tour, under the auspices of the National Woman’s Party in an effort to defeat Woodrow Wilson in his second bid for the presidency, as well as other Democrats, following the British policy of holding the party in power responsible for women’s disfranchisement. In addition to singing at nearly every event, Vida reported on the progress of the tour for The Suffragist. According to one source, Vida had suggested tha
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Suffs
Musical by Shaina Taub
Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in that gave some women the right to vote.[1]
The show premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater in April It opened on Broadway on April 18, , at the Music Box Theatre, where it received mostly positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, winning two, for Best Book and Best Score.[2][3]
Plot
[edit]Act 1
[edit]At the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Convention, Carrie Chapman Catt gives a speech calling for support for women's suffrage ("Let Mother Vote"). Alice Paul, exhausted by NAWSA's slow progress, proposes a march on Washington, D.C. on the day of President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, to pressure him to support a federal amendment for suffrage. Carrie refuses, preferring NAWSA's approach of gaining suffrage state-by-state. Irritated and unwilling to give up, Alice resolves to see equality for all achieved in her lifetime ("Finish the Fight"). She recruits her col