This Is What 100 Years Of Women's Protest Looks Like In The US
“Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” —Maya Angelou
Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters, lead an estimated 20,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Avenue in 1915.
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Suffragette Lucy Branham speaks at a rally in Washington, DC, circa 1919.
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Suffragettes hold a jubilee celebrating their victory. Melanie Lowenthal, who was one of the leaders of the demonstration, celebrates the dawn of political equality in 1920.
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Women in Chicago being arrested for wearing one-piece bathing suits without the required leg coverings, in 1922.
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