Official Description of the Image: "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."
The National American Woman Suffrage Association printed many of these programs for the 1913 Washington, D.C. parade. This parade took place sixty-five years after the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. The parade took place the day before the inaugeration of President Woodrow WIlson. Over eight thousand women and male supporters marched Pensylvania Avenue with twenty-six floats and a crowd of around five hundred thousand people watching. The parade was not peaceful, and the police Congress promised did not protect the parade-goers. Instead, the police stood aside and watched, and even joined the fray in some cases, as both verbal and physical attacks were thrown at those marching.
While the parade did not end well, the coverage of the entire event sparked a renewed interest in the woman suffrage movement on a national scale in the United States. The 19th amendment was passed seven years after the Woman Suffrage Procession took place.
Works Cited:
“File:Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession - March 3, 1913.Jpg.” Wikimedia Commons, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Official_Program_Woman_Suffrage_Procession_-_March_3,_1913.jpg.
“Image 1 of Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession. Washington, D. C. March 3, 1913.” The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20801600/.
Newman, Marlee. Women's Suffrage Movement - Facts and Information on Women's Rights. www.historynet.com/womens-suffrage-movement.