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Ivy in the Movement

The Role of 

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated

 & the 

Women of Howard University in the

 1913 Women Suffrage Procession. 

THE PLANNERS

AKA, Jane Addams

Alice Paul


Elsie Hill

AKA, Julia Lathrop, AKA, Jane Addams, 

and Mary McDowell in Washington, 1913, on a suffrage mission on Capitol Hill 

AKA, Nellie Quander

organizer over COLLEGIATE section.

AKA, Jane Addams 

 won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist

Florence Fleming Noyes as Liberty and her attendants. A suffrage tableau on the steps of the Treasury Building. March 3, 1913.

Fola La Follette, Broadway actress from Wisconsin and lifelong activist, led the actress group in the march.appointing Alice Paul & Lucy Burns to congressional chairmen at the national board meeting.

Courtesy of Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley  http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt6f59n89c&brand=oac4 Title: Alice Paul   By:  Amelia R. Fry Date: November 1972 and May 1973 

Julia Lathrop

Chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, was the first woman to head a federal bureau, appointed by President Taft. She marched with the banner for Women in Government Service.


Emma Gillett & Ellen Spencer Mussey

Mussey and Gillette created the Washington College of Law enabling more white women to practice law.  They also  fought for suffrage and Howard University's progress. 

More info about them

THE PUBLICATIONS

Quander requesting permission for Howard University women to march in the 1913 Suffrage march.

February 15th & 17th 1913

Notice in newspapers that Howard University women were marching in the 1913 Suffrage march in the collegiate section.

March 2, 1913

Howard University reported that Howard University women marched in college section in a prominent place in the 1913 Women's Suffrage march, being the ONLY college girls wearing the insignia of their school.  

March 14, 1913

THE PARTICIPANTS

Overview

  1. Artist, one—Mrs. May Howard Jackson

May Howard Jackson

6 College Women

Mary Church Terrell

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Bio:

Charlotte Atwoood

Howard Connection:

College Connection: 

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Mrs. Daniel Murray

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AKA, Georgianana Simpson

AKA, Harriet Shadd

 (Nellie Quander's cousin)

1 Teacher 

Caddie Park

On March 3, 1913, Caddie Park marched in the National American Woman Suffrage Association-parade. 

African American participation in this suffrage march was contested by white organizers, who eventually agreed to the presence of black women if they marched in a segregated group at the back of the procession. 

As reported by the NAACP journal, The Crisis,  Caddie Parke marched in the procession, representing herself as a teacher. The Crisis reported on their participation after the demonstration, noting that Caddie Parke and fellow African American marchers "are to be congratulated that so many of them had the courage of their convictions and that they made such an admirable showing in the first great national parade."

1 Musician

Harriet Gibbs Marshall

American pianist, writer, and educator of music. 

2 Professional Women

Dr. Amanda V Gray

Pioneer activist, educator, and pharmacist 

more

Dr. Eva F. Ross


https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/messenger/v6n04-apr-1924-Messenger-riaz-toon.pdf

Biographical Sketch of Eva F. Ross _ Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company

1 Illinois delegate

Ida B. Wells

Prominent journalist, activist, and researcher 

1 Michigan Delegate

Suffragette

2 Homemakers

Identity is unknown to the author at this time.

Identity is unknown to the author at this time.

1 Nurse

Identity is unknown to the author at this time.

1 Old Mammy

Identity is unknown to the author at this time.

25 Howard Girls in caps & gowns

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THE PLANNERS