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Joy Young Rogers
(1891–1953) was an American suffragist who served as an assistant editor of
The Suffragist
, the weekly newspaper of the
National Woman's Party
and the
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
. This photograph depicts her (then Joy Oden Young) outside the
White House
in Washington, D.C., where she presented President
Woodrow Wilson
with a basket of flowers that contained a request for the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
to
allow women to vote in the United States
, and letters of support from women of the American West.
Photograph credit: unknown; restored by
Adam Cuerden
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