I thought they might finish up in a skip. It kind of dawned on me that if I didn’t do something with them, how could I expect my crowd to do anything, they would have no nostalgic connection with them. “It took me a long time, they were there for years. She says she was spurred on to write the book by her acute awareness of the passage of time and how she was the last person remaining with a connection to the books. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment secured the vote for women.In Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood, Taylor writes of how, when her mother, Lena, husband, Gabriel and cousin Con, ‘climbed the library ladder to the heavenly book archives’, she became the custodian of the old school-books acquired by the family over decades. What began in 1913 took another seven years to make it through Congress. The mistreatment of the marchers amplified the event-and the cause-into a major news story and led to congressional hearings, where the D.C.
Before the day was out, one hundred marchers had been hospitalized. Policemen appeared to be either indifferent to the struggling paraders, or sympathetic to the mob. Marchers were jostled and ridiculed by many in the crowd. Though the parade began late, it appeared to be off to a good start until the route along Pennsylvania Avenue became choked with tens of thousands of spectators-mostly men in town for the inauguration. Organized by Alice Paul for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the parade, calling for a constitutional amendment, featured 8,000 marchers, including nine bands, four mounted brigades, 20 floats, and an allegorical performance near the Treasury Building.
In 1913, the first major national efforts were undertaken, beginning with a massive parade in Washington, D.C., on March 3-one day before the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Many courageous groups worked hard at state and local levels throughout the end of the 19th century, making some small gains toward women's suffrage. Less than a century ago, women in the United States were not guaranteed the right to vote.
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