1. Iris Calderhead was an American suffragist and organizer in the National Woman's Party.
12 Facts About Iris Calderhead
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Iris Calderhead was the daughter of William A Calderhead, the congressional representative for Kansas' 5th District from 1895 to 1911.
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Iris Calderhead spent the summer of 1913 at the University of Chicago and returned to Marysville to teach English and science.
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Iris Calderhead became involved in the women's suffrage movement after meeting Doris Stevens and Lucy Burns, leaders of the Congressional Union, in New York City.
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Iris Calderhead was willing to travel extensively to advocate for suffrage.
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Iris Calderhead was sent to Arizona, which had granted women the right to vote in 1912, along with Vivian Pierce, Ella Thompson, Helen Todd, and Rose Winslow.
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The group met resistance from the Democratic Party, which opposed women's suffrage, and Iris Calderhead reported that members of the party tried to ban the suffragists' meetings.
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In June 1917, Iris Calderhead was arrested at the Smithsonian Institution, where she and fellow organizer Elizabeth Stuyvesant planned to display a banner during a visit by President Woodrow Wilson.
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On July 14,1917, Iris Calderhead was arrested again for picketing the White House during the Silent Sentinels demonstrations and served three days in the Occoquan Workhouse.
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From January to June 1918, Iris Calderhead conducted a speaking tour through Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States in 1919, but Iris Calderhead's activism did not stop then.
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Iris Calderhead was born January 3,1889, in Marysville, Kansas, to Alice Gallant Calderhead and William Calderhead.