Inauguration 1913, Marching in 2017

Then and now, Mawrters fighting for womens rights.

Mawrters Marching 1913

On March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson鈥攖he former president of Princeton University who began his teaching career at 魅影直播鈥攚as inaugurated as the 28th president of the United States in Washington, D.C.

One day earlier, students from his former academic home took to the capital鈥檚 streets to demonstrate for women鈥檚 suffrage. Dressed in academic regalia, the students were part of the collegiate contingent of what was officially known as the Woman Suffrage Procession. Organized by Alice Paul and the Woman Suffrage Association, the procession was undertaken, according to the official program, 鈥渋n a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.鈥

Led by labor lawyer Inez Milholland, the march鈥斺╢eaturing mounted brigades, marching bands, 26 floats, and an estimated 8,000 marchers鈥攑roceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Department of the Treasury.

After a promising start, the marchers were jeered, tripped, and shoved by angry crowds blocking their way. Some 200 people were treated for injuries. Still, most finished the parade and gathered to view an allegorical tableau featuring Columbia, Justice, Charity, Liberty, Peace, and Hope.

The hope would come in handy over the next few years: the 19th Amendment would 鈥╪ot be passed until 1917.

 

 

Women鈥檚 March 2017

More than 100 years later, Mawrters were on the march again. Lawral Wornek 鈥04, at right, marched in Oakland, California, with Leia Casey. Although not a Mawrter, Casey cited Grace Lee Boggs, M.A. 鈥37, Ph.D.  鈥40  with a sign reading 鈥淟ove isn鈥檛 about what we did yesterday. It鈥檚 about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after.鈥 Wornek鈥檚 sign depicts the suffrage activist Alison Turnbull Hopkins picketing the White House in 1917. Marching with Wornek were Nathan Gold 鈥07 and Erika Merschrod 鈥95.

 from the Washington, D.C., march.

 

Published on: 03/17/2017