Inez Milholland Boissevain
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Dressed like Joan of Arc on a white horse, Inez Milholland Boissevain, a New York attorney, led a group of women all dressed in white. Here she is on horseback at the Women's Equality March in Washington D.C., 1913
The author of the original Equal Rights Amendment, suffrage champion Alice Paul organized a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1913 in Washington, D.C. Dressed like Joan of Arc on a white horse, Inez Milholland Boissevain, a New York attorney, led a group of women all dressed in white.
As the parade neared its end, a number of women were grabbed by men hostile to their cause. Police reportedly turned a blind eye to the melee until the cavalry was brought in to restore order. 100 people were hospitalized though not a single man was arrested.
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