http://www.virginiamemory.com Virginia Memory en-us Library of Virginia web@virginiamemory.com web@virginiamemory.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:39:01 GMT 300 http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/this_day_in_virginia_history http://www.virginiamemory.com/about/news_feeds/this_day_in_virginia_history Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:12:00 EST <p><a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/this_day_in_virginia_history/february/10"><img alt="feed image" width="130" height="113" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/index?w=130&h=113&img=2-10-1913-050057_18.jpg" title="Printed Form, Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, Records, 1909–1935, Accession 22202, Organization Records, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia." /></a>Advocates of votes for women, such as Pauline Forstall Colclough Adams (1874–1957), of Norfolk, spoke, lobbied, marched in parades, and argued that women should be allowed to vote. This certificate issued by the acting chief of police in Norfolk permitted Adams to speak "on streets, on Monument Square" in that city on February 10, 1913. Adams was arrested in Washington, D.C., in September 1917 for "flaunting" suffrage banners within sight of President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) and was sentenced to sixty days in a federal detention center.</p><br clear="all" /> http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/this_day_in_virginia_history/february/10