Woman Suffrage Parade Cape, 1913
name: label: wearer
content: Griswold, Jennie M.
notes: label: Description
content: This cape was worn by Jennie Griswold as a member of a cavalry unit during the 1913 suffrage march in Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: On the day before the 1913 presidential inauguration, more than 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote. Women from around the country came to Washington in a show of strength and determination to obtain the ballot. More than 10,000 spectators crowded the parade route. Some were simply boisterous but others were hostile. They spilled past the barriers and off the sidewalks, clogging Pennsylvania Avenue. Police officers were unable or unwilling to hold back the crowds and after the first four blocks the parade stalled as the marchers couldn’t pass through the mob. A cavalry unit from Fort Myer was finally called in to restore order and the parade finished hours late. The public was horrified, and a one-day event became an ongoing story, with demands for an investigation of the police department’s failure to protect the women.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jennie Griswold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.014951
label: catalog number
content: 14951
label: accession number
content: 56985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cape
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: flannelette (outside material)
label: Physical Description
content: cambric (inside material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (outside color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (inside color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 117 cm x 56 cm; 46 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in