How Did The NWP: Helpful Or Successful?

The NWP used a vast amount of ways to get their message out to the public. Transcontinental auto trips, speaking tours, motorcade parades, banners, billboards, and other methods helped spread the word and educate the public about suffragists and suffrage issues. Four years into their campaign and shortly before the United States entered World War I, NWP strategists realized that they needed to escalate their pressure and adopt more aggressive tactics. Most important among these was picketing at the White House–a concerted action that lasted for many months and led to the arrest and imprisonment of many NWP activists. The willingness of NWP pickets to be arrested, their campaign for recognition as political prisoners rather than as criminals,