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people marching in Washington, D.C., to demand voting rights for women in 1913

Votes for Women

Thousands of women gathered to march for the right to vote in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1913. More than a hundred of them ended up in the hospital as the watching crowd grew violent, and police stood by. The 19th Amendment wouldn't pass for seven more years.
Photograph by Clinedinst Studio, Nat Geo Image Collection