Rose Fights for Women
"I Would 'Hold The Crowd'"
O'Neill and her sister, Callista, did not like that all votes were cast by men. So when they lived in New York they attended speeches and marches. One evening O'Neill was asked to speak about women's suffrage. It was a great success. After O'Neill did her first speech, when she was walking away, she said "I am an orator." The next day she was at her drawing board when someone called her to "Hold the crowd." But the crowd was full of men who could not care less. |
O'Neill decided that she was a better artist than an orator, and worked making postcards and posters for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.