03/03/2021
Greetings to all the new and old fans of this page! New episodes of The Justice Docket are in the works. In the meantime, check out this piece of American History in honor of Women's History Month.
“'[A]n order went out to segregate [colored women] in the parade, but telegrams and protests poured in and eventually the colored women marched according to their State and occupation without let or hindrance.' The Crisis, vol 5, no. 6, April 1913, page 267." https://www.nps.gov/articles/woman-suffrage-procession1913.htm
On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, thousands of women marched along Pennsylvania Avenue--the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day--in a procession organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Designed to illu...
