Women Have Been Marching on Washington For Over 100 Years

March is Women’s History Month, and many people here in Athens, across America and around the globe will long remember participating in the historic Women’s March on Washington on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president in 2017. As memorable as that rally was, it was not the first time that women’s rights advocates had upstaged a presidential inauguration, and it was not the first time that a “mega march” of feminists had surged through the streets of the nation’s capital. On Mar. 3, 1913—the day before Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as president—several thousand women’s suffrage advocates, led by pioneering feminist Alice Paul,…