Today is the 113th anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Procession, when over 5,000 demonstrators, however racially segregated, march on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., demanding a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage on the eve of President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration.

The march turns chaotic as hostile men gather to shove, trip, and spit on the women. The police fail to maintain order, hundreds of people are injured, but the demonstrators persevere.

The movement is propelled by the public outrage that follows.

On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment guarantees the rights of women to vote in the U.S. However, women of color remain effectively disenfranchised through systemic barriers until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.