Woman Suffrage Procession (1913 : Washington, D.C.)
The Woman Suffrage Procession, also called the Woman Suffrage Parade, of 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. and also the first large organized march on Washington for political purposes. It was organized by suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. During this event, scheduled to precede the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson by one day, thousands of suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on Monday, March 3, 1913.
Paul believed it was time to add a visual element to the campaign. Paul and Burns recruited Crystal Eastman, Mary Ritter Beard, Dora Lewis, Emma Gillette, Belva Lockwood, and Helen Hamilton Gardener and was aided by local Washington, DC suffragists, Florence Etheridge and Elsie Hill. Hazel MacKaye was asked to design professional floats. The parade organizers originally wanted to include Black Women marching alongside the others but ultimately decided on a segregated march. Two groups from Howard University, including the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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