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This segment of The Vote from American Experience, is called "The Parade."

As the curtain opens on 1913, the nucleus of the woman suffrage movement had already begun

to shift from New York City to Washington D.C. Alice Paul, a well-educated, driven

Quaker of the suffrage movement's third generation, had arrived in DC with the intention of “spurring national attention and action.”

At a time when national protests were almost non-existent, Paul wrangles a permit to stage a parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, the symbolic conduit of American political power. The attacks by men on the non-violent marchers garner headlines and put suffrage on the map in a brand-new way.