Remembering the mammoth women’s suffrage parade of October 1915. ... lead an estimated 20,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave. in 1915 . AP. By Erin Blakemore.

She moved to Chicago, where she urged women of color to get involved in politics, and she led a group at the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade in D.C. Told by organizers to go to the back or leave, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

BARTOW – Long before getting the right to vote through the 19 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on Aug. 18, 1920, women across the United States had worked hard toward that goal. As part of ...