National Efforts
On March 3, 1913, over 5,000 suffragists paraded in Washington, D.C. When Ida B. Wells Barnett tried to line up with her Illinois sisters, she was asked to go to the end of the line so as not to offend and alienate the southern women marchers. Wells feigned agreement, but much to the shock of Trout, she joined the Illinois delegation once the parade started.
As the suffragists started down Pennsylvania Avenue, the crowd became abusive and started to close in, knocking the marchers around with hostility. With local police doing little to keep control, the cavalry was called in as 100 women were hospitalized. Many suffragists concluded that public protests might be the quickest route to universal franchise.
The longest Women's Suffrage parade was held on October 23, 1915 in New York City, the total being about 30,000 women. It took about 4 hours and 20 minutes for the entire parade to pass one spot, and “it was said that no woman marcher who started left the parade before it finished.”
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