Corner of Tremont and Winter Streets

Suffragists stood at popular street corners, such as this one, to advocate for suffrage.

NPS Photo/Woods

Quick Facts

Location:

Corner of Tremont and Winter Streets

Significance:

Place of Suffrage Activity

OPEN TO PUBLIC:

No

In the last decades of the fight for the 19^th Amendment, suffragists more publicly took to the streets to advocate for their cause. Many stood on corners of busy streets to distribute suffrage literature or publicize upcoming events.

The corner of Tremont and Winter Streets proved a perfect location for suffragists. Recalling the street corner as “the coldest spot in Boston,” Florence Luscomb spent her Saturday afternoons in 1910 and 1911 selling editions of The Woman’s Journal. She recalled having a public license as a "Hawker and Peddler" at this time, averaging about eight sales an hour.¹

Florence Luscomb holding The Woman's Journal (Elmer Chickering, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University)

Footnotes:

1. Papers of Florence Luscomb, Series III: Social and Political Activism, MC 39, 212: Suffrage Writings by FHL, including reminiscences, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.