--- title: Inauguration, Women's March on Washington: Protests to Know description: With thousands of demonstrators expected in D.C. following Donald Trump’s Inauguration, here are 4 other protests you need to know about. canonical: https://time.com/4636173/protests-before-womens-march-on-washington/ author: Elizabeth King article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-20T18:00:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:49:26.068Z article:section: History og:title: Inauguration, Women's March on Washington: Protests to Know og:description: The protests planned to follow Donald Trump's Inauguration are part of a long tradition og:url: https://time.com/4636173/protests-before-womens-march-on-washington/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7872141f48a5c6b/6988b52ebc6cfcd47d3dfc21/170111-washington-marches-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Suffrage Parade 1913 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Inauguration, Women's March on Washington: Protests to Know twitter:description: The protests planned to follow Donald Trump's Inauguration are part of a long tradition twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7872141f48a5c6b/6988b52ebc6cfcd47d3dfc21/170111-washington-marches-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 4 Protests to Know About Before the Women's March on Washington > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Elizabeth King](https://time.com/author/elizabeth-king/) ## Elizabeth King Jan 20, 2017 6:00 PM UTC  Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C. Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress by [Elizabeth King](https://time.com/author/elizabeth-king/) ## Elizabeth King Jan 20, 2017 6:00 PM UTC With [hundreds of thousands](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-idUSKBN14W2YS) of counter-inaugural demonstrators expected to [march](http://motto.time.com/4629510/celebrities-womens-march-washington/) on Washington following Donald Trump’s [Inauguration](http://time.com/3875609/life-at-the-inaugurations-rare-and-classic-photos-1933-1969/), this weekend’s protesters will be engaging in a longstanding tradition—especially among the American left—of gathering in Washington, D.C., to make their voices heard. Large-scale marches, parades and protests in the nation’s capital can pack additional punch at the time of Presidential Inaugurations, when citizens join together to speak out against the new president and the policies they ran their campaigns on. Here’s a look back at three past Inauguration Day protests—and another that helped inspire the women and allies march scheduled for Saturday in Washington. **1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade** One of the earliest large-scale marches on Washington D.C. was the [1913 Suffrage Parade](https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/03/03/this-day-history-1913-womens-suffrage-parade), when crowds of women [demonstrated](http://time.com/4242373/1913-suffrage-march-audio/) on March 3, the day before [Woodrow Wilson](https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/aw01e/aw01e.html) was sworn into office as the 28th president of the United States. That it was called a parade perhaps obfuscates what the 8,000 suffragists experienced that day. The 1913 march was one of the first major activities planned around gaining women’s suffrage in the United States, and to say that the idea was not yet popular among the mainstream would be an understatement. For their efforts that day, women demonstrators were verbally and physically assaulted by (mostly male) onlookers. There were reports that women were tripped and shoved about by opponents to their cause. Women would not gain federal voting rights until 1920—and women of color would not be guaranteed the right to vote until decades after that—but the march and specifically the way spectators treated the women activists became a major news story, lending attention and energy to women’s voting rights. ### See the Evolution of Protests in Washington  American politician Jacob Coxey leads a group of men on a march from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., in protest of unemployment, 1894. Stock Montage—Getty Images  One of the largest armies of unemployed men parade in Washington on bike, wagons and on foot, on the first Labor Day observance, Sept. 3, 1894\. Shown are Jacob S. Coxey's "Army of the Commonweal of Christ," with Coxey in the buggy at right, wearing light suit. AP Photo  Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress  Suffrage parade, March. 3, 1913. Library of Congress  Woman Suffrage Parade held in Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913. Library of Congress  The "Pay The Bonus" sign carried by a group of World War veterans was typical of the banners of the former soldiers who marched to Washington to press their demands for payments of the soldiers' bonus. June 7, 1932. AP Photo  Members of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces, many carrying American flags, marching across the east plaza of the U.S. Capitol. April 8, 1932. Library of Congress  Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Scene from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A group of young Americans attend a protest during the weekend of Richard Nixon's first inauguration, Washington, DC, Jan. 18-21, 1969. David Fenton—Getty Images  Police stand in front of group of antiwar demonstrators lined along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 1973, before the inauguration pf President Richard M. Nixon. AP Photo  With the Capitol in the background, participants in the Million Man March gather on the Washington Monument grounds Monday Oct. 16, 1995. Charles Tasnadi—AP Photo  West Coast members of the Nation of Islam gather on the Mall in Washington, Monday, Oct. 16, 1995, prior to the start of the Million Man March. Steve Helber—AP Photo  Demonstrators make their feelings known as they crowd along the George W. Bush inauguration parade route on Jan. 20, 2001, in Washington, D.C. Don Emmert—AFP/Getty Images  During inaugural ceremonies on Capitol Hill, protesters rally against President George W. Bush during a march on Jan. 20, 2005 in Washington, D.C. Oscar H. Mataquin—AFP/Getty Images [_More: Listen to a Suffragist Recall the 1913 March_](http://time.com/4242373/1913-suffrage-march-audio/) **1973 Richard Nixon Inauguration** About a month ahead of Richard Nixon’s first inauguration in 1969, as the left grew increasingly angry about the war in Vietnam, a massive group of anti-war demonstrators marched on the nation’s capital. A small number of protesters threw rocks at Nixon’s limousine and clashed with police, but the demonstration was mostly peaceful. Approximately half a million people showed up to speak out against the Vietnam War, making it the [largest anti-war protest](https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/nov-15-1969-anti-vietnam-war-demonstration-held/?%5Fr=2) in United States history. Four years later, Protesters staged another massive anti-war demonstration for Nixon’s second inauguration on Jan. 20, 1973, 8 years into the Vietnam war. Approximately [100,000 protesters](https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/the-1969-nixon-inauguration-horse-manure-rocks-a-pig/) gathered in Washington D.C. with [signs](http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V%5F5813156F2D7F46D2A4480255E352E329) that compared Nixon to Nazis, sang anti-war songs, chanted slogans and, as they had for Nixon’s first inaugural in 1969, threw stones at the president’s limousine. Seven days later, the government announced that the military would [stop drafting soldiers to Vietnam](http://www.politico.com/story/2012/01/us-military-draft-ends-jan-27-1973-072085). **2001 George W. Bush Inauguration** Like Donald Trump, George W. Bush secured the presidency despite losing the popular vote in 2000\. The left, feeling that the White House had been stolen from their candidate on a technicality, staged the [largest inaugural protest since Nixon](http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/inaug/2001-01-20-approtests.htm) when Bush was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2001\. One protester, Mack Wilder, told _USA Today_ that he came specifically because Bush had lost the popular vote: “If he had won clearly, I wouldn’t have troubled to come here.” In impassioned protest fashion, demonstrators gathered in the capitol with anti-Bush signs in toe. Some protesters threw rocks, tomatoes and eggs at the parade route before Bush arrived. Bush’s second inauguration in 2005 was heavily protested as well. It took place nearly two years after Bush commenced the war in Iraq, a conflict that was deeply resented by many citizens and government officials on the left. Several groups, including left-wing activists and [anarchists](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24488-2005Jan20.html), marched in Washington, and heard speeches from leftist activists. Some violence broke out at the protest, even between protesting groups. Protesters also staged a die-in in protest of the thousands of lives lost during the war in Iraq. **1997 Million Woman March** This one wasn’t tied to an Inauguration, but it played an important role in the history leading up to this Saturday’s planned protest. The march planned for Jan. 21, 2017, one day following Donald Trump’s inauguration, was initially named the Million Woman March. However, the first [Million Woman March](http://www.blackpast.org/aah/million-woman-march-1997) took place 20 years earlier in Philadelphia. On Oct. 25, 750,000 black women marched in Pennsylvania to honor both the struggles and successes of black women, as well as to [celebrate of African American families](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/26/us/at-million-woman-march-focus-is-on-family.html). That march followed just two years after black men organized en masse for the [Million Man March](http://www.blackpast.org/aah/million-man-march-1995) in Washington D.C. on Oct. 16, 1995\. The men held the march to call attention to issues facing their communities, particularly voter suppression. The women’s march planned to coincide with the Trump inauguration is a direct call-back to these events organized by African-American activists in the 1990s. _Read more about the 2017 Women’s March on Washington and other protest events planned for this week:_ [Here Are Some of the Events Planned to Protest Donald Trump’s Inauguration](http://time.com/4623995/donald-trump-inauguration-protests/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4636173/protests-before-womens-march-on-washington/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4636173/protests-before-womens-march-on-washington/"},"headline":"4 Protests to Know About Before the Women's March on Washington","datePublished":"2017-01-20T18:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:49:26.068Z","description":"The protests planned to follow Donald Trump's Inauguration are part of a long tradition","url":"https://time.com/4636173/protests-before-womens-march-on-washington/","keywords":["politics","protest","inauguration"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7872141f48a5c6b/6988b52ebc6cfcd47d3dfc21/170111-washington-marches-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth King","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/elizabeth-king/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7872141f48a5c6b/6988b52ebc6cfcd47d3dfc21/170111-washington-marches-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Suffrage Parade 1913","caption":"Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C.","creditText":"Library of Congress","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/politics/","name":"politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4636173/protests-before-womens-march-on-washington/","name":"4 Protests to Know About Before the Women's March on Washington"}}]}] ```