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The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. [citation needed] The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Planning ...
Inez Milholland, on horseback, led the March 3, 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C. She was known as the 'Most Beautiful Suffragist'. [8] Milholland's causes were far reaching. She was not only interested in prison reform, but also sought world peace and worked for equality for African Americans.
English: Official program - Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913. Cover of program for the National American Women's Suffrage Association procession, showing woman, in elaborate attire, with cape, blowing long horn, from which is draped a "votes for women" banner, on decorated horse, with U.S. Capitol in background.
1912: Kansas grants women suffrage. [6] 1913: Alice Paul becomes the leader of the Congressional Union (CU), a militant branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. [3] 1913: Alice Paul organizes the Woman's Suffrage Procession, a parade in Washington, D.C., on the eve of Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. It is the largest suffrage ...
The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was an American organization formed in 1913 led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns [1] to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. It was inspired by the United Kingdom's suffragette movement, which Paul and Burns had taken part in. Their continuous campaigning drew attention ...
Instead, in March 1913, riding astride became entrenched as a white feminist cause at the Women’s Suffrage Procession in Washington D.C. Inez Milholland, a lawyer and avid women’s rights ...
A suffragist, Ottenberg was an organizer of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. [4] In 1920, after women won the right to vote, Ottenberg cofounded the "Voteless DC" chapter of the League of Women Voters, as Washingtonians were not allowed to vote for US President at the time. [1]
In February 1913, before women’s right to vote was added to the U.S. Constitution, Nelly M. Quander, a Black woman, Howard University graduate, and then-president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority ...