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Pageantry for Women's Rights: The Career of Hazel Mackaye, 1913–1923

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Karen J. Blair
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The early twentieth century found American suffragists experimenting with a diverse array of techniques to argue their cause. Among those who gave their talents to this effort was a skilled theatrical professional, Hazel MacKaye (1888–1944). A radical suffragist, MacKaye was a charter member of the Congressional Union, which in 1914 formally split off from the National American Woman Suffrage Association and evolved into the militant wing of the suffrage movement, the National Woman's Party. Hazel MacKaye created four women's rights pageants to propagandize for the suffragists between the years 1913 and 1923, which this paper will describe and examine.

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Theatre Survey , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , May 1990 , pp. 23 - 46
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1990

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