Equal Say
SLIDESHOW: A photographic essay of how women won the vote
- By Whitney Dangerfield
- Smithsonian.com, March 01, 2007, Subscribe
On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, thousands of women paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., demanding their right to vote. More than 60 years had already passed since Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had gathered some 300 women in Seneca Falls, New York, to launch the women's suffrage movement, and many women had grown impatient. Underwood & Underwood / Library of Congress
Pictures tell the story in this collection of photos of the women’s suffrage movement. To start at the beginning of the photo essay, click on the large photo to the right, or click on this link: Begin slideshow >
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