The women's suffrage parade

[Texasgal]

Pictured: The women's suffrage parade a century ago today when 100 marchers were hospitalized when they clashed with a hostile male crowd
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:06 EST, 3 March 2013 | UPDATED: 15:45 EST, 3 March 2013
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A huge step forward on the road to women's suffrage in the U.S. happened exactly 100 years ago today. The 'Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913' was a march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on March 3.
Scheduled for the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, the official program called for a 'march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.'
The parade was organized by the suffragist Alice Paul for the National American Woman Suffrage Association and demanded a constitutional amendment. It was an impressive sight, featuring 8,000 marchers from all over the country, nine bands, four mounted brigades, 20 floats, and an allegorical performance near the Treasury Building.
Reports at the time suggest that the parade got off to a good start until the route was blocked by tens of thousands of spectators - mostly men who were in Washington for Woodrow's inauguration the following day.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287438/Pictured-The-womens-suffrage-parade-century-ago-today-100-marchers-hospitalized-hostile-male-crowd.html



very cool pics at the link.

[ismnotwasm]

1. Cool

There's another thread on this, but I can't get enough

[niyad]

2. thank you for posting this--the pictures are great! hope this gets a lot of attention.

did you see that there was a centennial march planned for today in DC? haven't found any coverage of the events yet.

[redqueen]

3. Here's one.

Delta Sigma Theta Re-enacts Women's Suffrage March
Thousands march past White House and along Mall


n Sunday morning, several thousand women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority retraced the footsteps of their founders who participated in the Women's Suffrage March of 1913.

Several thousand of the sorority's members commemorated the 100th anniversary of the march and the role the organization's 22 founders played, marching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, diverting their route from the Mall to walk past the White House.

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded in 1913 by 22 African-American women at Howard University. and is now one of the largest African-American women's organizations in the country with an estimated 300,000 members around the world.

Participating in the Women's Suffrage March was the first public act performed by the group's founders, according to their official website. The parade was scheduled the day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as the 28th President of the United States and attracted an estimated 8,000 marchers.

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http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Delta-Sigma-Theta-Reenacts-Womens-Suffrage-March-194671181.html

[niyad]

4. thank you! meant to look last night, and got side tracked into a site called "suffrage wagon"

[seabeyond]

5. love the pictures on this. pictures does it for me.

i get so much out of them. and there were real awesome ones in the link. thanks. lets me do some thinking.