Abstract
During the period of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, the "Murphy Brown"/Dan Quayle incident, and an "undeclared war against American Women," I found myself nearing the White House ellipse with a group of sixty St. Olaf College Feminists for Change and 750,000 other people marching for reproductive rights. As I approached the march, someone stopped and pinned a white and purple banner on me that said "WE WON'T GO BACK! WE WILL FIGHT BACK! March for Women's Lives, Washington, D.C. April 5, 1992." I could not contain my excitement. My fellow marchers did not understand how the simple experience of having a banner pinned on me could be so overwhelming. As I looked across the sea of people dressed in white, at my own "costume," at the purple, gold, and white banners carried by state delegations, and at women carrying signs and banners in front of the White House I began to experience, first hand, the impact Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party (NWP) had had on me, the entire woman's movement, and our country. I explained to the St. Olaf women that the banners, white clothing, costumes, banner coloring, and the tactics employed by the marchers and organizers closely resembled those used by the NWP.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
27
Issue
2
First Page
3
Last Page
28
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Baumgartner, Lisa Marie
(1995)
"Visual Rhetoric, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, the NWP, and Suffrage,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 27:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol27/iss2/3
Copyright
©1995 Iowa Communication Association
