Jun 28, 2001 · Part of the American Women series, this essay tells the story of the parade, including the mistreatment of marchers by rowdy crowds and inept police, the contested participation of African American women, and the parade's impact on the larger suffrage mov.

The parade featured golden chariots, Women’s marching bands, college women grouped by alma mater, and a massive reproduction of the Liberty Bell. “General” Rosalie Jones and her army of pilgrims had hiked all the way from New York.

Mar 3, 2016 · While women had been fighting hard for suffrage for over 60 years, this marked the first major national event for the movement. The huge parade, which was spearheaded by Alice Paul and the National American Woman Suffrage Association, was held on March 3, 1913.

On March 3, 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote. Their “national procession,” staged the day before Woodrow Wilson’s presidential inauguration, was the first civil rights parade to use the nation’s capital as a backdrop, underscoring the national importance of their cause and women’s identity ...

Mar 4, 2016 · On Monday, March 3, 1913, lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain, clad in a white cape and riding a white horse, led the great women's suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation's capital.

On Monday, March 3, 1913, attorney Inez Milholland, clad in a white cape astride a white horse, led the great woman suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Behind her stretched a long line with nine bands, four mounted brigades, three heralds, about 24 floats, and more than 5,000 marchers.

Jan 23, 2017 · On March 3, 1913, one day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, more than 5,000 women descended on Washington to fight for the vote. Some came on foot, some on horseback, some in...

Apr 2, 2021 · On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women’s Suffrage Parade — the first mass protest for a woman’s right to vote.

Mar 1, 2018 · Woman Suffrage Parade/Library of Congress (1914) by Harris & Ewing, photographer National Women’s History Museum. The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, unprecedented in both its scale and its tactics, was a major turning point for the woman suffrage movement in the United States.

Apr 7, 2015 · WASHINGTON, March 3 — In a woman’s suffrage demonstration to-day the capital saw the greatest parade of women in its history. In the allegory presented on the Treasury steps it saw a wonderful series of dramatic pictures.