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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
It was advertised that "Dawn Mist" and friends would march with suffragists in the Woman Suffrage Procession, on March 3, 1913, but Dawn Mist was not a real person. [12] Instead, the Great Northern Railway had hired Native American women to perform as Dawn Mist, who acted as a publicity stunt for the Railroad company. [12]
March 11 – John Shaw Billings, military and medical leader (born 1838) March 31 – J. P. Morgan, financier and banker (born 1837) May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (born 1850) May 8 – Frank O. Briggs, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913 (born 1851)
In a break with NAWSA, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage in 1913 to pressure the federal government to take legislative action. One of their first acts was to organize a women's suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. The procession of more ...