Inez Mulholland
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Inez Mullholland was a suffragette involved in the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which later branched into the grassroots radical National Woman's Party. These groups were responsible for the 19th amendment being added to the American Constitution on August 26, 1920, giving women the right to vote.
Born in Brooklyn, New York on August 6, 1886, she studied at the prestigious Vassar and was suspended for organizing a women's rights meeting. The president of Vassar had forbade all suffrage meetings, but Inez and others held regular "classes" on the issue, along with large protests and petitions. She graduated in 1909 and spent time in Europe and became deeply affected by the build-up to World War I. She vehemently protested against America's involvement in the war and she was a labor lawyer and involved in the production of the socialist journal, The Masses. Mulholland, sometimes spelled as Millholland, became a leader and a popular speaker on the campaign circuit of the NWP. She worked closely with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and led suffragist parades as the "woman on the horse." She died in San Francisco on November 25, 1916 at Blanchard Hall on 3rd Street, during a campaign while speaki
Julia Ormond's representation of Inez was received with accolades in the movie Iron Jawed Angels, which received a standing ovation at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
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