On March 3,1913, protesters parted for the woman in white: dressed in a flowing cape and sitting astride a white horse, the activist Inez Milholland was hard to miss.
She was riding at the helm of the Women's Suffrage Parade- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote on a national scale.
After months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D. C. Here, they called for a constitutional amendment granting them the right to vote.
By 1913, women's rights activists had been campaigning for decades.
As a disenfranchised group, women had no voice in the laws that affected their– or anyone else's– lives.
However, they were struggling to secure broader support for political equality.
They'd achieved no major victories since 1896, when Utah and Idaho enfranchised women.
That brought the total number of states which recognized a women's right to vote to four.
A new, media-savvy spirit arrived in the form of Alice Paul.
She was inspired by the British suffragettes, who went on hunger strikes and endured imprisonment in the early 1900s.
