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Parade Heckler #1: [taunting the women marchers] Get off the streets! Go home to your mothers!
Woman in Parade: My mother is here!
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Ida Wells-Barnett: I'm told you expect Negro women to march in a separate unit. At the back.
Alice Paul: Southern Suffrage groups threatened to withdraw...
Ida Wells-Barnett: Are the ladies afraid we'll march out of step? Call their bluff.
Alice Paul: We can't afford to lose their support. Not with the Democrats in office.
Ida Wells-Barnett: Who's we? Women? Or just white women?
Lucy Burns: Now wait a minute...
Alice Paul: We have one agenda. Suffrage. Add another issue...
Ida Wells-Barnett: If we don't stand up now, what happens to Negro women when you finally get the vote? They'll keep us out of the polling places any way they can.
Alice Paul: Other colored groups have agreed to the compromise.
Lucy Burns: Not perfect, but we've got to be practical.
Ida Wells-Barnett: Dress up prejudice and call it politics? I expected more from a Quaker. I'll march with my peers, or not at all.
Coby Batty
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