On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, thousands of suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and straight into a hostile mob. Alice Paul planned it to force the vote into the national conversation. It worked.
Phoebe Apperson Hearst grew up poor in rural Missouri, married a mining magnate, and became one of the wealthiest women in America. She spent her fortune on public education for Washington children. Here is her story, and why a school in Cleveland Park bears her name.
In 1923, Washington DC women formed the Anti-Flirt Club to fight back against men who harassed them from cars and street corners. Here are their Ten Commandments.
