Groups Participating in the Reenactment:

Boone County Historical Society

First Unitarian Church of Des Moines

American Association of University Women - Iowa

Women’s Internal League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
/Des Moines, Iowa, Branch

Iowa League of Women Voters

Iowa Commission for the Status of Women

Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs/
State Historical Society of Iowa

Selected Participating Organizations & People in the Original Parade

Keynote Speaker: Anna Howard Shaw, [Opinion expressed 10/14/1908 after witnessing London parade of June 13, 1908] NY Times, 10/15/1908
...National American Equal Suffrage Association

President of the Boone Equality Club: Rowena Stevens

Des Moines Political Equality Club[became the Iowa League of Women Voters in 1920]
President: Mrs Mary Jane Coggelshall

First Unitarian Church, Unity Circle

Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, Minutes from the 37th Annual Convention, Boone, Iowa, Oct. 27, 1908
Recording Secretary: Minnie W. Littell,

President: Rev. Eleanor E. Gordon [History of the Event, in Her Own Words]