After World War 1 the National American Woman Suffrage Association closely worked with the Congressional Union and as the reelection of President Wilson Woodrow was approaching suffragists had to find new strategies to urge the president to support women's suffrage. Picketing the White House likewise tried to impact universal opinion by pointing out America's hypocrisy of pushing democracy abroad and at the same time constraining the activity of political rights for women at home (Library of Congress). Suffragists from all over the country began to protest in front of the white house. Leaders of the Congressional Union Alice Paul and Lucy Burns would organize and lead the picket lines and on August 28th, 1917, ten women were arrested while