Men fear when women march

1913 photo lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain riding astride in the suffrage parade as the first of four mounted heralds. In her short life she shared with many of her fellow marchers a commitment to social reform.
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Brigades of “troops” advancing up Pennsylvania Avenue by the tens of thousands will always get the attention of institutionalized power-holders. And if President-elect Donald Trump’s past disparagement of women is at root an expression of some deep-seated fear of them, this latest march will surely succeed, as it did in 1913, in drawing out and identifying the latent sexism and bigotry in Washington, D.C.