Suffragettes riding a float at the New York Fair, Yonkers (1913).
Inez Boissevain at a suffrage parade in Washington, DC (1913).
So let's take a moment to remember Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and all the countless other suffragettes who fought, and sometimes gave their lives, so we could have this fundamental right.
To see more images from the suffrage movement, visit the Library of Congress' collection "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920.
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