 So this is probably the most famous photograph of women protesting outside the White House and the the text of their banners reads Mr. President how long must women wait for liberty and Mr. President what will you do for women's suffrage? This is 1918 so it's the at the end of Wilson's terms as president And they had been waiting for Wilson to make Commitment in one direction now. This is on the eve of course of the passage which comes by the end of the end of the year in 1920 You can see that they are boldly demanding rather than politely asking and that too is a change in Not only the tactics of the suffrage movement itself But kind of the tenor of public debate in the country that there was an opportunity with this with urbanization Increasing mass media which became more and more some some I'm sure some contemporaries thought vulgar and Other contemporaries thought Frank and direct There there also is a frankness and a directness that's new to the suffrage campaign the parade that I was talking about We're with women all dressed in white and not all the women were dressed in white some of them are dressed in academic regalia or their professional insignia to Signify that these are a wide range of women from different backgrounds that same parade allowed black women to march at the back and that was a I'm sure a very difficult moment for many people in the parade for black women and for White women who were had been committed to the principle of racial equality Which included many of the leaders of the suffrage movement who had made some some very I'm sure pain full compromises with that philosophy hoping to bring southern states where the Principle of Jim Crow and segregation was front and center throughout this time period This is often talked about as the nadir of race relations in the United States and lynching is An issue that has been brought to the fore by black women such as I to be Wells Barnett Who's at that parade and refuses in fact to walk at the back and at the last minute just emerges out of the crowd and joins somewhere towards the middle to the front and That was also an exciting moment For IDB Wells Burnett for for the history of women's suffrage movement her defiance of the racism within the movement Signaled a unwillingness of black women to take that back seat