30,000 Women March for Votes: NYC Suffrage Parade
Between 25,000 and 33,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City on October 23, 1915, in the largest suffrage parade the nation had ever seen. They carried banners, wore white dresses, and stretched for blocks. Male supporters, including several prominent politicians, marched alongside them. The parade was organized to build momentum for a New York state referendum on women's suffrage scheduled for November 2. That referendum failed. But the scale of the march stunned the political establishment. New York held another referendum in 1917 and passed it, making it the first large Eastern state to grant women full voting rights. The New York victory proved decisive for the national movement: Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment two years later, and it was ratified in 1920.
October 23, 1915
111 years ago
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