Inez Milholland Boissevain

Inez Milholland Boissevain, a young lawyer, led 8,000 women in a protest march in Washington, D.C. She rode a white horse and wore a flowing white silk cape. The women wanted to ask the new president, Woodrow Wilson, to give women the right to vote.

Men shouted insults and threw things at the women. They kept on marching. While Inez was fighting for her cause she got very sick and died at a young age. Four years later, in 1920 women won the right to vote.