But very few people came to meet his train. Instead, hundreds of thousands of people lined Pennsylvania Avenue to watch a Woman Suffrage Parade. To demand their right to vote, five thousand women had ...

The day before Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration, on March 3, 1913, Paul organized a women's suffrage parade of more than 5,000 participants from every state in the Union. The festivities drew ...

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Force-feeding and imprisonment could not stop suffragist Alice Paul’s march forward. A new park site would tell her story. Horse-drawn floats, trumpeters, banners, and thousands of marchers.

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s ...

The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. There, 68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which modeled on the Declaration of Independence, outlines ...

City police stood by, refusing to intervene. Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing for decades.

“While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last.” These were Kamala Harris’ historic remarks during her victory speech after being ... by the pioneering efforts of the female ...