Other highlights this month include the opening of a Rosa Parks statue, Pakistani teen hero Malala Yousafzai’s message at the U.N. and WeNews’ own satirical readings of anti-feminist writings on March ...

A group of women carry the American flag during a Women’s Suffrage Parade in New York City on May 3, 1913. The stars on the flag represented those states which have granted women the vote.

During a time when Black women’s votes are more pivotal than ever, our leaderships and contributions to the Suffrage Movement must be honored. ... DC to participate in the 1913 suffrage parade.

One of the first large-scale civil rights protests in the nation’s capital — to secure voting rights for women — took place 110 years ago this Friday. The “Great Suffrage Parade” took ...

At a New York Women's Suffrage Parade in 1913, a group of authors, dramatists, and editors donned sashes and marched with other suffragettes.

Black women were an important part of the growing women suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1913 in advance of a women’s parade to advocate for the amendment and ratification ...

Like the suffrage parade of 1913, the 19th Amendment was tainted by racism, and its legacy is more complicated than what core history classes teach. For decades afterward, many Black women were ...

In 1913, McCoy attended the Women’s Suffrage Parade at Washington, D.C. around Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. “Like many Black women of the period, she for this parade had been asked to ...

The next day’s Lexington Herald declared it the largest suffrage parade in the history of Kentucky. A May 7, 1916, edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader shows coverage of a large women’s ...