 What you see are dramatic displays where women are coordinated in their dress. White became a symbol of the suffrage movement. So they're borrowing from traditional iconography of womanhood. They're borrowing the notion of purity. They're also borrowing notions of white supremacy. It works on a lot of different levels. So in, for instance, 1913, you see at the head of that suffrage parade a very well-known young beautiful lawyer, female lawyer who is dressed in white in a long white dramatic cape and sitting astride a pure white horse. And that suffrage parade is heading past the Capitol. The first public protest to ever petition the White House to stand outside and demand attention in front of the White House which is a familiar image now for early 21st century Americans. This is what you do when you want attention and when you want to call the powers that be on the carpet and you want to demand something from them. But the first one was a suffrage parade and it was talked about as very controversial. Women were being bold. This was led by two leaders, young leaders, a new generation of more, what's often referred to as militant suffrage women because instead of working behind the scenes and just working through contacts with powerful men, they went directly to the public and they also got arrested for what they were doing and then staged hunger strikes in prison and they also got them an enormous amount of attention. Lucy Barnes and Alice Paul organized this particular one on the eve of the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson the day before the inauguration so they were very savvy. They knew the press was in town. They knew people were gathered there for the next day and there was almost no one to greet the new elected president so they stepped off the train because everyone was downtown watching the women marchers. So they were very coordinated. They were all about using the press and that's new. The press is relatively new so it's not a surprise that 19th century suffragists were not as able to take advantage of them. It simply didn't exist really until the end of the 1890s but it is the first time that you really see the suffrage movement using that to its full advantage.