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A genius for publicityHad the 1913 march gone flawlessly it would have been less of a success. Alice Paul immediately realized that the violent disruption and police…
The Original Women's MarchThe 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession really was the original Women’s March. It called women from around the country to Washington, DC for Inauguration…
How to be anti-racistBlack 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…
Alpha Suffrage Club arrives in WashingtonBlack women at the Inaugural March, part IIA large Illinois delegation--some accounts say 62 people, others 65--came to Washington for the 1913…
Black women at the Inaugural March, part IAs 1913 began, planning was underway for a massive suffrage march and pageant to take place in Washington, DC on March 3, the day before…
Out past curfewCities around the country instituted curfews this week to restrict protest, so it’s a good time to recall when suffragists were out after dark. In…
The first big public march“The Woman Suffrage procession moved down Fifth Avenue yesterday to the meeting of protest in Union Square, well guarded by the mounted police. New…
The Hikers16 women really did walk to Washington to participate in the original Women’s March, on the occasion of Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 inauguration. “General”…