1913 Parade Book.
1913 Parade Book.: SUFFRAGE PARADE; HEARINGS before a subcommittee of the Committee of the District of Columbia United States Senate sixty-third Congress special sesion of The Senate under S. Res. 499 of March 4, 1913, Directing said Committee to investigate the conduct of the District police and Police Department of the District of Columbia in connection with the Woman's Suffrage Parade of March 3, 1913. Part 1. March 6-17, 1919. Printed for the use of the Committee on the District of Columbia. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. Washington: US Congress, 1913.
First Edition. 8vo, pp. 557. Original wraps bound in later binder's cloth, bookplate removed from rear end paper. Includes 37 photographs including 6 fold-outs of the crowds and parade.
Rare, we haven't had a copy of this. We have had two copies of a version of the final report. Front wrapper repaired and strengthened along the hinge, title page repaired along the hinge as well. This is feminist author and suffragist Helen H. Gardener's copy with her signature on the front wrapper. (Gardener's testimony starts on page 437, she was at the parade as a member of the press.) [40920]
Organized by militant Alice Paul, this parade turned into a near riot as the women had to fight their way through a hostile crowd and indifferent police. The confrontation, ironically, rescued the movement from a kind of doldrums and spurred the formation of The Congressional Union. See Flexner p. 263ff.
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