Pictures of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade

To mark the centennial anniversary of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, Atlantic magazine Senior Editor Alan Taylor collected 24 photographs to feature in a slideshow. Taylor explains why the march was so important, and selects some of the more striking images of the parade. There are also photos of a program for the parade, as well as portraits of the organizers.

Go to this link to see the photos, which are housed in the Library of Congress.

Making a Spectacle of Suffrage: The National Woman Suffrage Pageant, 1913

A discussion of the first national woman’s suffrage pageant of 1913, which was sponsored by NAWSA, the National American Woman Suffrage Association. An elaborate combination of theatricality, allegory, decorative effect, and radical politics characterized the spectacle, which the organizers self-consciously positioned at the intersection of art and the production of meaning and the construction of femininity. The pageant galvanized the highly turbulent debates on the role of women and underscored the woman question as a topical political issue. With its careful choreography, its public challenge to fundamental standards of feminine behavior and its re-contextualization of feminine allegorical imagery within the political arena, the pageant marked a turning point in US suffrage activities.

You can request the full text of the article here via ResearchGate.

Partial access, including the article’s abstract: Sarah J. Moore, Journal of American Culture 20, no. 1 (Spring 1997)

You can access some free information about the article, including its abstract, here via Wiley Online Library.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.1997.00089.x