1915 October 23

33,000 March in New York City Suffrage Parade

 

An estimated 33,000 women and men paraded down New York City’s Fifth Avenue on this day in support of women’s suffrage, in what was called the “Banner Parade.” New York State amended its constitution in 1917 to grant women the right to vote in state elections.

The first and most famous suffrage march occurred in Washington, DC on March 3, 1913, and drew 8,000 participants. A small group of suffragists then met with President Woodrow Wilson on March 17, 1913 in an unsuccessful attempt to convince him to support a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.

The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920, and women voted in all federal and state federal elections, including the election for president, for the first time in November 1920.

Watch a documentary on the earlier 1913 suffrage parade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-o5BGbyh8M

Read a biography of Alice Paul: Mary Walton, A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot (2010)

Learn more about the history of women’s suffrage, from the 19th Century to the present: Ellen Carol DuBois, Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote (2020)

Learn more at a timeline on women’s suffrage: http://dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html

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