Celebrating the 19th Amendment:
Time Travel to the Women's Suffrage Parade in 1913
"General" Rosalie Jones led a group of 225 marchers from New York to Washington, DC. This morning, a cavalry brigade of women met General Jones and escorted the group into DC.
The sections of the parade represent the progress of women's rights. The fourth section represents "The Appeal of Business and the Professions," It includes business women and teachers, women in government service, social workers, librarians, writers, artists, actresses and musicians.
Musicians march in red.
The sun is shining brightly and it is just cold enough to make walking enjoyable. The procession advances up Pennsylvania Avenue with groups of marchers cascading into formation from side streets.
Homemakers march in white. White dresses symbolize the femininity and purity of the suffrage cause.
The steady stream of people walk and ride horseback to the U.S. Treasury Building at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.
The future leaders of the movement are Lucy Burns and Alice Paul, currently members of the National Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony. We march because "this is the most conspicuous and important demonstration that has ever been attempted by suffragists in this country."
Alice Paul has introduced the new color scheme of gold, purple and white. "Purple is the color of loyalty, constancy to purpose, unswerving steadfastness to a cause. White, the emblem of purity, symbolizes the quality of our purpose; and gold, the color of light and life, is as the torch that guides our purpose, pure and unswerving.”
Because this parade will be taken to indicate the importance of the suffrage movement by the press of the country and the thousands of spectators from all over the United States gathered in Washington for the Inauguration.
Read more:
Marching for the Vote, Library of Congress
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