October 23, 1915
More than 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote. It began at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and continued until long after dark, attracting a record-breaking crowd of spectators. Five years later, the 19th amendment was passed, granting 26 million women (half of the population at the time) the right to vote. If you look closely at the photo, you can see that they are carrying ballot boxes on stretchers. Clever, those women!
October 23, 1947
The NAACP filed formal charges with the United Nations accusing the United States of racial discrimination. “An Appeal to the World,” edited by W.E.B. DuBois, was a factual study of the denial of the right to vote, and grievances against educational discrimination and lack of other social rights. This appeal spurred President Truman to create a civil rights commission.
