Suffrage Hikes

[1] Florence Gertrude de Fonblanque organised the first from Edinburgh to London.

Within months Rosalie Gardiner Jones had organized the first American one which left from The Bronx to Albany, New York.

[4][5] The major participants of the hikes, and the ones who covered the entire distance, were reporter Emma Bugbee,[6] Ida Craft (nicknamed The Colonel),[7] Elisabeth Freeman,[8] and Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who was known as The General.

[8] It began on Monday morning at 9:40 am, December 16, 1912, and left from the 242nd Street subway station in The Bronx[9] where about 500 women had gathered.

The march continued for thirteen days, through sun and rain and snow covering a distance of 170 miles, including detours for speeches.