On March 3, 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, demanding the right to vote. Their “national procession,” staged the day before Woodrow Wilson’s presidential ...
This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Women’s History Month with a postcard from the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade. On March 3, 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote ...
Nineteen-twelve was when Theodore Roosevelt came out for women's suffrage and became the great champion of women's rights. And I think one of the least understood, but more important aspects, of ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Kristen Gwinn-Becker discussed the history of this event in Washington, DC. Kristen Gwinn-Becker talked about the centennial of the 1913 Women’s ...
Decades before women won the right to vote, suffragists filled city streets and courthouses across America to demand a say in their own future. Armed with little more than banners, marches, and sheer ...
2018-10-13T17:00:27-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fce/20181013170551003_hd.jpgAuthor Rebecca Roberts told the story of women suffragists, led by Alice Paul ...
Women in the United States and in the United Kingdom fought for voting rights on either side of the Atlantic Ocean in the early 20th century, protesting for suffrage by picketing, going on hunger ...
The 19th Amendment was ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, but many women of color were prevented from casting ballots for decades. Women on horseback march in a suffrage parade behind flag-bearers on ...