suffragemovement

NYTimes reported in 1913: "HEMPSTEAD, L.I., May 22. -- The townsfolk here are waiting with much curiosity for the suffrage pageant which Gen. Rosalie Jones has arranged for next Saturday afternoon. On that day those interested in the suffrage cause, will march from Mineola to this place. At the trolley junction the parade will be reviewed by Assemblyman O'Keefe and officials of Nassau County." Two days later, also in the New York Times: "Hempstead, N.Y., May 24. -- Three miles of public highway between Mineola and Hempstead were crowded this afternoon with a long line of automobiles from all parts of Nassau County as they followed the suffrage pageant, in which 500 women and a few men marched as enthusiastic upholders of the cause."

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Mrs. Margaret Howe holds the emblem representing the Oregon delegation at a women's suffrage parade in 1913 in Washington DC. (Note the NA banner hanging on the building. NA was the National American Women's Suffrage Association). At this march/ parade, the women held banners representing states that already had women's suffrage. Oregon women obtained the right to vote in 1912.

This appears to be the actual unveiling ceremony on July 6, 1905, as a large American flag that draped the statue of Sacajawea was removed.

"THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, MANY of whom stood in the hot sun for hours," gathered at 2:00 p.m. on July 6, 1905, on Lakeview Terrace by the Columbia Court of the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair in Portland, Oregon. The crowds had arrived to witness the unveiling of a bronze statue of Sacajawea ... "Speakers at the event ... included Abigail Scott Duniway, Oregon's own suffragist, and Susan B. Anthony, legendary leader of the woman suffrage movement." – Fair Connections: Women's Separatism and the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905.

The inscription on the plaque reads, "Erected by the women of the United States in memory of the only woman in the Lewis & Clark expedition, and in honor of the pioneer mother of Old Oregon." [1]  

Check out the Guide to the Dye Family Photographs Collection 1855-1945 in NWDA Eva Lucinda Emery Dye "made Sacagawea a heroine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the eyes of the public." She was also active in the Oregon Woman's Suffrage Association. "As president of the Sacajawea Statute Association, Eva was instrumental in hiring Alice Cooper to sculpt the copper statute of Sacagawea exhibited at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905. The statue became a permanent fixture in Washington Park at Portland, Oregon." Her book The Conquest, which was written for the Lewis and Clark Centennial, "portrayed Sacagawea as a model of 19th century true womanhood."