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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.
THE PLAN
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Alpha Kappa Alpha woman, Jane Addams, a famous civil rights activist and social worker both helped craft the idea for the 1913 procession & appointed both Alice Paul & Lucy Burns in charge of the march.
Paul appointed Elise Hill to the collegiate section. Hill went down to Howard personally to invite the Howard women to march. Once the Howard women accepted and it was publicized controversy came from white women located in the southern part of the country.
The theory behind this thought is that southern white women believed that if black women got the vote that black women would be equal to them.
This is a time when the majority of the south's population was black. In 1910 the South had 8.75 million of nation’s 9.83 million “Negroes”, an 89 percent share.
Alpha Kappa Alpha woman Nellie Quander as president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. , wrote 2 letters to ensure that the Howard women would be
a. Be able to march in the The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade.
b. Ensure the safety of the “Howard women ” as they marched.
c. & indeed they marched, in the collegiate section, protected by Quaker men, who were the relatives of Alice Paul. Paul herself also marched with us in the collegiate section.
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
Jane Addams
Julia Lathrop
Nellie Quander
Elsie Hill
Artist, one—Mrs. May Howard Jackson;
The Howard University group included college women, six—Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Daniel Murray, Miss Georgia Simpson, Miss Charlotte Steward, Miss Harriet Shadd, Miss Bertha McNiel
Teacher, one—Miss Caddie Parke;
musician, one— Mrs. Harriett G. Marshall;
professional women, two— Dr. Amanda V. Gray, Dr. Eva Ross.
Illinois delegation—Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett;
Michigan—Mrs. McCoy, of Detroit, who carried the banner;
Howard University, group of twenty-five girls in caps and gowns;
Home makers— two - Mrs. Duffield, who carried New York banner, Mrs. M. D. Butler, Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford."
One trained nurse, whose name could not be ascertained, marched, and an old mammy was brought down by the Delaware delegation
- Artist, one—Mrs. May Howard Jackson
May Howard Jackson
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234737761.pdf -
Teacher at Howard
6 College Women
Mary Church Terrell
Howard Connection:
College Connection:
Bio:
Charlotte Atwoood
Howard Connection:
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Bio:
Mrs. Daniel Murray
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Bio:
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. 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
Mrs. McCoy, of Detroit, who carried the banner.
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
References:
Dubois, William Edward Burghardt (April 1913). "Suffrage Paraders". Google Books.
https://www.vassar.edu/stories/2017/171107-vassar-suffragettes.html
Source: https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C5075808?utm_campaign=AlexanderStreet&utm_medium=internal&utm_source=aspresolver
1913) Julia Lathrop, Jane Addams, and Mary McDowell in Washington, on a suffrage mission on Capitol Hill. , 1913. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006677361/.
https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/the-hill-sisters