DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Spend a few minutes examining the photograph on the front. 1. Describe this image. What are the women doing? Why are there only women in this image? 2. How is important in this image? What do you think were the benefits of picketing in “place” front of the White House? What costs might this strategy have had for the National Woman’s Party? Would the meaning of this image be the same if these women were protesting somewhere else? 3. What does the legible sign say and what does it mean? What are they waiting for the President to do? 4. The words are not visible on the second banner from the left. What might you have written on a protest sign? 5. What was the point of including slogans on picketers’ banners? Why might these slogans provoke onlookers? 6. Do you think is a violent or non-violent form of protest? 7. Do you think these women are wealthy or poor? What clues are provided in this image?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Spend a few minutes examining the photograph on the front. 1. Describe this image. What are the women doing? Why are there only women in this image? 2. How is “place” important in this image? What do you think were the benefits of picketing in front of the White House? What costs might this strategy have had for the National Woman’s Party? Would the meaning of this image be the same if these women were protesting somewhere else? 3. What does the legible sign say and what does it mean? What are they waiting for the President to do? 4. The words are not visible on the second banner from the left. What might you have written on a protest sign? 5. What was the point of including slogans on picketers’ banners? Why might these slogans provoke onlookers? 6. Do you think is a violent or non-violent form of protest? 7. Do you think these women are wealthy or poor? What clues are provided in this image?
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