'The same rationales that held women back from education and political life were used against them in sport, so they really go hand in hand.'
By the time she was 53, Frances Willard had a long list of accomplishments to her name. As president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union , the influential educator had published popular books, traveled across the country lecturing, and served as the first female president of a college that granted degrees to women.
The 1890s ushered in the safety bicycle, now easier and less dangerous to ride than its predecessors. With its two equal-size wheels, chain drive with pedals at the axle, functional brakes, and pneumatic tires that provided a smooth ride, the safety bicycle rippled through society like a crashing wave, washing over communities of all kinds. Suddenly, women could travel on their own, without a chaperone.
It’s worth noting that the women who were granted these new freedoms, like the women who would eventually win the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, were. Despite their decades of advocacy for suffrage, many women of color remained disenfranchised by state laws and voter suppression tactics that kept them from actually casting a ballot.
Cycling was far from the only physical activity with connections to suffrage. Women hosted swimming competitions to bring attention to the cause; in 1917, the National Women’s Life-Saving Leagueto rescue a dummy who was wearing an anti-suffrage sash. There were also “suffrage hikes” for publicity purposes. These pilgrimages involved walking long distances over multiple days, including a tough 225-mile route from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C., completed by 13 women in 16 days.
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