The March of Women's Suffrage Rights

Inez Milholland led the women of all different countries on a march on Monday, March 13, 1913 through Pennsylvania Avenue. Inez led these women in order to stand up and march towards a better life. Followin her were nine bands, four mounted brigades, three heralds and about twenty-four floats. Even "Pioneers" showed who were trying to raise women's rights for numerous decades.

There were sections of this parade, hoping that people would recognize who they were and what they had done. First were the women from different countries who enfranchised women. Next, were the "Pioneers" who had tried for so many years. Then there were the women who worked for their livings. They dressed in their apropriate clothing, trying to make people see who they were and what they had to do. After tht were the state delegates. And finally, the few men who supported women and their rights.

For the first couple of blocks, everything was running smoothly. However, when men that did not support this movement, including policemen showed up, they decided to block these streets in order to prevent the women from moving onwards. The women usually had to form single-file lines just to get by. Women were shoved, grabbed. tripped and jeered when the men came close enough. This was violent businees, but of course there are more than one side to this story. "When I saw rhose women just walking down the street, I was just thinking how ridiculous this was. I mean what will walking down a few blocks do for these women?" questioned a man on the outlines of the march. Another man added, "These women disgust me. men are more superior. We deserve all our rights that we have and women deserve nothing!" However Miss Inez Milholland, herself, rebelled, "Women are no less superior to men. We deserve to be able to vote. Men and women were created equally, not one sex better than the other." And a "pioneer" stated, "I have been fighting for women all my life and yet I could still not figure out how to make the government understand. Yet now, these women have come up with the most brilliant idea to make the government notice and that is what makes women deserve to have their rights."

Ambulances came and went for six hours, yet the wowmen pursued. Still, the marches made it through, all the way to the end. Women had been trying for so many years to gain their independence, and now as they came up with the march they were sure that it would succeed. Women and men from all different countries came to support the march for women's rights, and it all payed off. The leader of this mkarch, Inez Milholland, sighs a sigh of relief and adds one last thing, "I know that if I was able to gaion women's rihts, i have accomplished all that is needed in life."