The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation\'s capital as a backdrop.
Groups of women protested and pickete.
She planned a grand spectacle on Pennsylvania Avenue on the day before Woodrow Wilson\'s inauguration--marking the beginning of a more aggressive strategy on the part of the women\'s suffrage movement.
Then Alice Paul came to Washington, D.
C.
Despite sixty years of relentless campaigning by suffrage organizations, by 1913 only six states allowed women to vote.
The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation\'s capital as a backdrop