Saturday, October 27, 2012

9. Brick Pavement: March on Washington

Brick Pavement
 By Becky Brown



Fifty years before Martin Luther King led "The March on Washington" for equal rights for African-Americans, women staged a spectacular parade in Washington's streets on March 3, 1913, the eve of  President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Organizer Alice Paul hoped to show Wilson, who'd refused to support the cause during his campaign, the political power of protest and the importance of the woman suffrage movement to Americans.


Five thousand marchers were led down Pennsylvania Avenue by Inez Milholland Boissevain astride a white horse.



Floats and divisions represented suffrage pioneers, state organizations, occupations such as doctors and librarians, men who supported equal suffrage and representatives of countries where women had the vote.


 
As they turned towards the Treasury Building the parade ran into a blockade of men in the streets.


Policemen refused to clear the path, siding with the mob.
Women were insulted, groped, and beaten. It was estimated that 300 were injured.



A few marchers made it to the Treasury Building where a pageant celebrating Liberty continued.


Brick Pavement
By Georgann Eglinski
We can recall this protest march on Washington's streets a century ago with Brick Pavement. This week's block is adapted from a 1938 pattern by the Nancy Page syndicated newspaper column.



The Nancy Page version (BlockBase #2823).

Brick Pavement
By Dustin Cecil



Cutting an 8" Finished Block

The red numbers are a little more generous when the EQ rotary cutting default is set to 1/16th of inch. Black numbers are set to 1/8" inch.

A -Cut 2 squares 2-3/8" (2-3/8")

Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 4 triangles.

B - C 1 square 6-1/4" (6-3/16")
 Cut with 2 diagonal cuts to make 4 triangles. You need 2 triangles.

C - Cut 1 square 3-3/4" (3-11/16")

 
Cut with 2 diagonal cuts to make 4 triangles. You need 4 triangles.

D - Cut 2 squares 2-1/4" ( 2-1/4")

E - Cut 4 rectangles  2-5/8" x 4" (2-5/8" x 4 1/16")

F - Cut 1 square 2-5/8"  (2-5/8")
Piece the C triangles to the D squares. Make 2 units.
Then piece those units to rectangles E and add triangle B. Make 2 units.
Add triangle A to the corners.
Make the center strip.
Piece the 3 sections.


12" Block (Modified so D & F are the same size)
A - Cut 2: 2-7/8"
B - Cut 1: 9-3/16"
C - Cut 1: 5-3/16"
D - Cut 3: 3-5/16"
E -  Cut 4: 6 -3/16 x 3-5/18"

Brick Pavement
By Becky Brown

Since I adapted the pattern and drew it in Electric Quilt you won't find this block in BlockBase. If you want to print it using EQ try importing #2413a (Grandmother's Pride) into EQ. That will give you the basic structure. Erase a few lines to match the pattern. Then print.

Read more about the March, 1913 parade here:
The march was well-documented by news agencies of the time and the Library of Congress has many photographs. Click here and do a search for these words

Women's Suffrage 1913



9 comments:

  1. Obama campaign fabric and Votes for Women on sale 2 FQ for price of 1 this week only!!!
    http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/materialculture
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  2. Thank you for the story and bringing back the history of the work for women's vote. I'll be exercising the right they got for me. =)

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  3. I'm really enjoying the BOW as the blocks are beautiful. However it is the history that really fascinates me. Thank you so much for all the information. I look forward to my Saturday morning read, followed by deciding how to use my fabric for the block and then later getting the block made.

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  4. There are a lot of fans out here for the Votes for Women quilt project. I've been passing on the information on suffragewagon.org

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