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Gender Roles In The Women's Suffrage Movement
Women used many methods to have the right to vote in the women's suffrage movement.

One of the methods the women tried to accomplish was the women rights parade. At that time President W.W. was arriving. During the parade there was huge crowds. Most of them were men. Most of the men were drinking and in disappointment, they through their beer bottles at the women in the parade. As the parade was going on men got furious and started attacking the women, the cops didn't do anything..they didn't care. By the end of the parade there was more than 100 people injured and in the hospital. Another method the women tried to do was picketing the White House. The women picketed from dusk to dawn. The women stayed out through every type of weather


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