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
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