When Alice Paul of the National Woman\'s Party asks Mary Nolan to return to Washington, D.
C., to demonstrate again for women\'s right to vote, Mrs.
Parting ways in Jacksonville, Florida, Grandmother Nolan and other Suffragists continue on their national tour aboard the Freedom Train, as Delia begins her journey home to Fernandina and into a new era opening for women..
By the end of the trip, Grandmother Nolan and Delia\'s relationship has changed as they have bonded through shared experiences.
Anthony Amendment; and experiencing first-hand the horrors of the Washington, D.
C., jail all transform Delia from a naïve girl into a mature young woman.
Fletcher to vote for the Susan B.
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A chance encounter with Mary Church Terrell of the National Association of Colored Women; learning of Margaret Sanger\'s fight for women\'s reproductive rights; trying to convince Florida U.
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Delia\'s interest in the suffrage movement is kindled when she meets Alice Paul and other women at the NWP headquarters.
Countering this is Delia\'s friendship with Eloise Brown, a volunteer at NWP headquarters, whose budding romance with the neighborhood baker and plans to be an independent woman inspire Delia to chart her own course.
At the boarding house where Delia and Grandmother stay, Delia meets Frances Dove, a nurse returning from the battlefields of France, who tells Delia of a friend\'s romantic betrayal and death.
The captain calls on Delia in Washington and, despite a cool reception from Grandmother, a motorcycle wreck, and the prospect of separation, romance blossoms.
On the train to Washington, Delia is introduced to army Captain Richard Manning.
Her unmentioned assignment is to keep Grandmother from being jailed-again.
Everyone agrees, but no one is available except granddaughter Delia whose relationship with her Grandmother is strained.
Her family decides that because of her age and health, someone should go with her.
Nolan immediately packs her bags for the trip.
When Alice Paul of the National Woman\'s Party asks Mary Nolan to return to Washington, D.
C., to demonstrate again for women\'s right to vote, Mrs
