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History of the United States II / Unit 6   USH2 0767 short lesson, about 20 seconds

The 1913 Parade

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The idea

On March third, nineteen thirteen, the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns led a suffrage parade of eight thousand through Washington.

In practice

Violence along the route sending more than one hundred women to hospital.

Where people slip

Ida B. Wells-Barnett refused to march at the rear and joined the Illinois delegation instead.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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