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Black women at the Inaugural March, part IIIIda B Wells is the hero of our story. At the 1913 suffrage march she was 50 years old, mother of 4, an…

I love this photo, though I doubt the accuracy of its caption. I love that the young African-American man (boy?) is the only one aware of being…

Two weeks after Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Alice Paul led a delegation to the White House for suffragists’ first-ever meeting with a US President.…

On July 31, 1913, suffragists commandeered the Senate floor for more than two hours. It was the first time since 1887 that women’s voting rights had…

As 1913 began, planning was underway for a massive suffrage march and pageant to take place in Washington, DC on March 3, the day before…

Two amendments were added to the Constitution in 1913. Two. While women were scraping to get a federal suffrage amendment out of committee, Congress…

Had the 1913 march gone flawlessly it would have been less of a success. Alice Paul immediately realized that the violent disruption and police…

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