Monday, February 18, 2013

INEZ MILHOLLAND: SCOTT'S CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA CONTINUES

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THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF ROBERT SCOTT’S CHRONICLES OF CROTON’S BOHEMIA: INEZ MILHOLLAND--click on the photo. Somehow we missed this one; it is certainly worth reading. 

INEZ MILHOLLAND: BEAUTIFUL SUFFRAGIST ON A WHITE CHARGER - CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA - On March 3, 1913, a statuesque woman clad in a flowing white cape and riding a white horse was the leader of a giant women's suffrage parade down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue.

She carried a streaming banner reading, "Forward into light."  

Not quite 27 years old, Inez Milholland already had an impressive record of accomplishments.

She was a record-setting athlete in college, an attorney specializing in workers’ problems, and a forceful and charismatic speaker. A fighter for labor, she had been jailed as a suffragette in England. READ MORE HERE http://notorc.blogspot.com/2013/02/inez-milholland-beautiful-suffragist-on.html 

SEE MORE OF ROBERT SCOTT'S CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA HERE  http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/02/doris-stevens-more-chronicles-of.html

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