Male supporters of woman suffrage from Kings County, New York, petitioned their U.S. representative for a report of the congressional investigation of police conduct on March 3, 1913. The violence of the crowd and police complicity in the poor conduct outraged the public and strengthened sympathy for the suffragist cause.
Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, National Archives and Records Administration
Resolution from the Men’s League for Women Suffrage of King’s County, New York, April 14, 1913
The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
On March 3, 1913, more than 5,000 suffragists paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Capitol to the Treasury Building to demand a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women’s right to vote. Crowds of men in town for the following day’s presidential inauguration blocked the route and harassed the marchers. Public outcry over the violence led to congressional hearings. Press coverage boosted the suffrage movement, helping to bring about passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote.
I asked the policeman would he not please protect this woman, and he said, “There would be nothing like this happen[ing] if you would stay at home.”
Patricia M. Street, Suffrage Parade: Report of the Committee on the District of Columbia, May 29, 1913
Male supporters of woman suffrage from Kings County, New York, petitioned their U.S. representative for a report of the congressional investigation of police conduct on March 3, 1913. The violence of the crowd and police complicity in the poor conduct outraged the public and strengthened sympathy for the suffragist cause.
Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, National Archives and Records Administration
