During a march for women’s  suffrage in Washington D.C., she ignored the organizers’ attempt  to placate Southern bigotry by placing Black women in the back, and marched up front alongside the white women.
Numa marcha pelo sufrágio para as mulheres, em Washington D.C., ignorou a tentativa dos organizadores em acalmar o fanatismo sulista, colocando as mulheres negras no fim e marchou na frente juntamente com as mulheres brancas.