Votes For Women
Near Wilmington, Delaware
On May second, nineteen fourteen, the streets of Wilmington filled with women demanding the vote. Roughly four hundred suffragists, organized by the Delaware Congressional Union and the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association, marched from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the New Castle County Court House at Tenth and Market Streets.
The march reflected the divisions of its era. Black suffragists from the Wilmington Equal Suffrage Study Club, led by Blanche Williams Stubbs, took part, but marched as a separate, segregated group. The following year, organizers Mabel Vernon and Edna Latimer toured the state in an automobile dubbed the Votes for Women Flyer, donated by the activist Florence Bayard Hilles. Their work pushed Delaware toward the national fight that ended in nineteen twenty, when the Nineteenth Amendment finally guaranteed American women the right to vote.
