Boundary Stones Celebrates Women's History

Boundary Stones is proud to celebrate Women's History Month with some of our favorite videos and articles. Relive pivotal moments in the Suffrage movement. Meet community leaders. Revel in the creativity of artists and musicians  — and much more! 

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In 1913, thousands of women from across the United States gathered in Washington, D.C. to parade for the right to vote. But when belligerent, drunken men crashed the route, the march through the capital became a street fight.

Way back in the 1870s, Washington D.C. passed two anti-discrimination laws that made it a crime for restaurants to refuse service based on race. As Jim Crow tightened its grip, the laws were omitted from the city code and faded from memory. But they were never actually repealed. And when Civil Rights researchers uncovered the so called "Lost Laws" in the ‘40s, Mary Church Terrell used them to topple segregation in D.C. restaurants.