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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 ...
March 23 was also the earliest date for Easter in the 21st century (March 23, 2008) and will be the earliest in the 22nd century (March 23, 2160). March 22 is the very earliest possible date for Easter (as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox), with the last occurrence on March 22 , 1818 , and the next one not to ...
The organizers of the Woman Suffrage Procession, planned for Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1913, just before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, asked MacKaye to create a pageant for the event. Titled Allegory and produced by director Glenna Smith Tinnin , it was presented on the steps of the U.S. Treasury Building as the culmination of the event.
Suffrage leader Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch had Inez lead parades [1] in 1911, 1912, and 1913. [11] On March 3, 1913, the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, Milholland, 26, made her most memorable appearance, at the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington D.C. which she had helped organize. [8]
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.
May Jane Walker Burleson - "Jennie" May Burleson (1888–1957) was a notable socialite, artist, and Texan suffragette who was the Grand Marshal of the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 in Washington, DC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Mounted with confidence on her horse, she led a parade of 5,000 people up Pennsylvania Avenue , Washington, DC and "into a melee that ...
1913: Final preparations for the annual work horse parade are being made. Elbel's band will lead 19 classifications of horses in this Labor Day event.
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 ...