March 3, 1913
More than 8,000 women marched for women’s suffrage in Washington DC. This was the march in which the young Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, was arrested and jailed. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an outspoken, African American journalist, famous for leading an anti-lynching campaign at the turn of the century; she was also a founder of a suffrage club in Chicago. When she arrived in Washington, she was told that Black women had to march in the back rather than with her state delegation; the Nation’s Capital was a segregated, southern city. Incensed, she first decided not to march at all. Half way through, she defiantly joined the Illinois delegation, flanked by two of her White supporters.
