Question

They wear sashes around their torsos that read the names of colleges, and they hold banners that read 'Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty,' and 'Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage.' A handwritten caption reads 'The first picket line—College Day in the picket line, Feb 1917.

Who is shown in this photograph from 1917?

(1 point)

flappers who wanted the right to work outside the home


suffragists who called themselves the “Silent Sentinels”


pacifists who were protesting U.S. involvement in World War I


women who were working for the election of Warren G. Harding

Answer 1

suffragists who called themselves the “Silent Sentinels”

They were members of the National Woman’s Party picketing for woman suffrage outside the White House in 1917 (hence the banners and college sashes).