We've added our newly created Equality Clock to the TGW shop. The image is from the Women's Pageant for Equality held during the famous Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913.
The 1913 Pageant for Equality in Washington D.C. was described by the NY Times as "one of the most beautiful spectacles ever seen in this country."
In the elaborate and beautifully staged Pageant, "one hundred women and children presented an allegorical tableau written especially for the event to show 'those ideals toward which both men and women have been struggling through the ages and toward which, in co-operation and equality, they will continue to strive.'"
When the line of 26 floats, 10 bands, 6 golden chariots, and divisions of between 6,000 and 10,000 women marching by country, state, profession and occupation was blocked for over an hour by an unruly, unrestrained mob of drunk and disorderly men the shocking news made front page headlines nationwide.
In 1913, women carried banners asking:
Ninety-two years later, we are still asking the question.
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