Crowd converging on marchers and blocking parade route during March 3, 1913, inaugural suffrage procession, Washington, D.C.
College Section
Washington DC suffrage parade
March 3, 1913
This section was led by Vassar graduate Elsie Hill who along with her mother helped arrange the permit for the parade.
Junior Woman’s Relief Corps, Sextonville, Richland County, Wisconsin, ca. 1890.
The Woman’s Relief Corps, founded in 1883, is a national women’s auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, the fraternal organization of Civil War Veterans.
These young women wear matching uniforms and pose with brooms and dustpans, suggesting they were part of a broom brigade. Popular in the late 19th century, broom brigades were military-style women’s drill teams that marched with brooms instead of rifles.
Margaret Vale Howe, niece of President Wilson, at New York Suffrage Parade in 1915.
The Alaska Territorial Legislature approved women’s right to vote as its first official act in 1913.
Free Milk for France Parade, Washington D.C., 1918
Images via the Library of Congress
Free Milk for France was a response to the agricultural devastation created by World War I. Founded by a small group of New York women, branches were eventually created in 38 states by locally prominent women.
Free Milk for France shipped powdered milk to France where it was distributed by the government and government authorized facilities to children, the elderly, the sick, and nursing/pregnant women. The US government contributed $9,623.87 ($143,363.16 in today’s money) collected in fines from war profiteers.
Sister Gaume, Sister Superior of an orphanage in the Belleville quarter of Paris wrote on receiving the milk:
This precious milk is used for the orphans, for tired or old sisters, for young mothers who nurse their babies, for quite small children, for the tubercular, for the convalescent, for the people who are left destitute by the war and hide their misery… Your splendid gift is thus very much appreciated. It is very useful and we will never forget it.
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An anti-censorship protest in Brazil during the military dictatorship (1968-1985)
