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INEZ MILHOLLAND BOISSEVAIN – Stories of an American suffragette, who led the 1913 Washington march, championing the black Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her death in 1916 galvanized the National Woman's Party, which launched picketing of Wilson's White House. After arrests of the picketers, and a hunger strike and maltreatment of the prisoners (force-feeding), public opinion changed. Wilson did too, and the 19th Amendment became law in 1920.
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INEZ | 5A. The 1913 Suffrage Parade Line of March [11]
The line of march of the suffrage parade looking from the front toward the back. Nowhere will you see "Howard University" or "Deltas". The black sorority at Howard University, the Deltas, was initially told they would not be allowed to march because it would set back the cause of votes for women. Some leaders of the Congressional Committee of NAWSA were concerned about a southern backlash and wanted black women excluded from the parade.
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| Inez Milholland Boissevain at head of parade, 1913. |
She insisted that the Deltas be allowed to march. This intervention is dramatized in my play, Take Up the Song. (New version available from the author, 2016. Contact jtmarlin@post.harvard.edu.)
However, in segregated Washington, the sorority had to assemble in a "colored only" area. They were inserted at the end of the parade.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett defied the Congressional Committee and slipped in with her NAWSA chapter, Chicago early on in the parade. Others followed suit.
While perhaps 30 black women marched in the parade in 1916, in the centennial parade virtually all of the marchers were from the Delta sorority.
If we were to redraw the line of march in 1916, the Deltas would account for the entire line except for the floats and bands at the end!
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