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Women's suffrage

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Suffrage hikers arriving in Washington from New York on Pennsylvania Avenue, February 1913, with the U.S. Capitol behind them. Harris & Ewing.The 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington, DCMay 11, 2015Phoebe Hearst Elementary SchoolPhoebe Hearst: The Woman Behind the School’s NameFeb 4, 2014February 27, 1923. "Miss Alice Reighly, 1409 Harvard Street, president of Anti-Flirt Club, which has just been organized in Washington, D.C., and will launch an 'Anti-Flirt Week' beginning March 4. The club is composed of young women and girls who have been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Shorpy)The Anti-Flirt Club: Washington’s 1923 Campaign Against Street HarassmentJul 16, 2012
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