On January 20, 2017 a women's march on
not on Washington but in many other cities across America occurred.
Over 3.3 million people world wide attended this march. It was not
only women who participated but also males. These people were
rallying to not only protect women's rights from future possibilities
but also equality among the genders, immigrant protection, and LGBTQ
rights. But this was not the first women's march to take place in our
American history. On March 3, 1913 women gathered together one day
before President Wilson's inauguration to protest for women's right
to vote. Over 5,000 women flocked to Washington in different costumes
and signs to fight for what they believe in. Six years after this
memorable event and with a lot of persistence and hard work the 19th
amendment gave women the right to vote. Hopefully, the women's march
that just occurred will help save not only women's rights but
everybody's rights from being hurt in some sort of way. Whether it be
to take away women's rights to abortion or to ban immigrants from
entering the United States. Everybody's rights should be protected
and both the women's march on Washington showed that.
Link:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/original-womens-march-washington-and-suffragists-who-paved-way-180961869/
I was noting some of the details in the picture you provided and see a lot of people in t-shirts, baseball caps, jeans, and holding signs with profanity on them. Do you think that informalities seen in protests today have a direct correlation with how few people of high political power take them into regard? Back in the first Woman's March, the suffragists wore long white dresses as a means to look innocent and professional. Obviously they made a statement because today woman have the right to vote. When Martin Luther King was leading a Civil Rights march he ensured that everyone that was marching was dressed in their "sunday best." I think how a crowd appears has a huge affect on how seriously their demands are taken.
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