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Tomorrow – January 10 – in 1917,  a band of bold suffragists, led by Alice Paul, launched a new tactic in the ceaseless fight for the vote – picketing the White House, (occupied by President Woodrow Wilson).  At 10 a.m.,  twelve suffragists marched across Lafayette Square and took their position in front of the White House – six at the West gate and six at the East gate. At each gate, four women held  high the purple,

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