100th anniversary of women's suffrage
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The official program for the “Woman Suffrage Procession," held in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1913. Women seeking the right to vote dressed in Greek-styled costumes and marched from the U.S. Capitol. (SHNS photo courtesy of Library of Congress)
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Inez Milholland led the 1913 parade dressed in all white atop a white horse named Grey Dawn. (SHNS photo courtesy of Library of Congress.)
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Women prepare to march in the 1913 “Woman Suffrage Procession,” starting at the U.S. Capitol/ Women from all 2. countries that had already achieved the right to vote participated in the march. (SHNS photo courtesy of Library of Congress.)
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This map shows the order of the 1913 suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Ave. At the front is Inez Milholland, followed by women from other countries who had already given women the right to vote (SHNS photo courtesy of Library of Congress.)
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The 22 original founders of Delta Sigma Theta sorority from Howard University, whose first activity was to participate in the 1913 women’s suffrage march. (SHNS photo courtesy of Delta Sigma Theta.)
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An ambulance attempts to make its way through the unruly crowd in 1913 as the parade moves down Pennsylvania Avenue. More than 300 women were injured in the march and 100 were hospitalized. (SHNS photo courtesy of Library of Congress.)
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Alice Paul toasts to suffrage in 1920. Paul was imprisoned, placed in solitary confinement and force-fed for leading pickets outside President Woodrow Wilson’s White House. (SHNS photo courtesy of Library of Congress.)
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Harriot Stanton Blatch, seen in the front row, far right with the black academic robe, marches in a New York Suffrage Parade in 1912. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who wrote the 19th Amendment.
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Three generations of suffragists (from left to right): Nora Stanton Blatch DeForest Barney; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who authored the 19th Amendment; and Harriot Stanton Blatch. (SHNS photo courtesy of Coline Jenkins.)
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Coline Jenkins, the great-granddaughter of voting-rights advocate Harriot Stanton Blatch, wears the academic robes that Stanton Blatch wore, as well as a “Votes for Women” sash worn by her foremothers. (SHNS photo courtesy of Coline Jenkins.)
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Elizabeth Jenkins-Sahlin, a descendant of Harriot Stanton Blatch and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will march in the Centennial Suffrage Celebration in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. (SHNS photo/Matt Anzur)
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