Oakland Centennial Suffrage Parade

On October 2, 2011, an estimated 250 participants representing at least 10 organizations marched through Oakland to celebrate the centennial anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in California.

Oakland was the site of the first Women's Suffrage parade in California! On August 23, 1908, three hundred women marched down Harrison Street to the Republican Convention at Ebell Hall to petition the convention to include a plank in their platform for women's suffrage. After considering the request for three days, the Convention denied the Suffragist's petition. But the groundwork was laid, and three years later, California voted to give women the right to vote. The vote was close, with only a margin equivalent to one voter in every precinct supporting women's suffrage.

Several states passed women's suffrage laws before California. However, it took another 9 years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which allowed all women to vote in Federal elections.

http://www.waterfrontaction.org/parade/

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[jennywaggo]

Thank you for sharing this video!

[scarletbohemian]

I was so honored and proud to

be part of this very important and historical event!