Delta Sigma Theta, a national black sorority, marched in the Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the Congressional Union told Ida B. Wells that she and her Alpha Suffrage Club, the first Black suffrage club in the state of Illinois...would have to march at the rear of the line.

The young women endured insults, objects were thrown at them, and the crowd pressed in to keep them from moving forward. Ida B. Wells slipped out from the crowd and joined the Chicago contingent. --Paula Giddings, In Search of Sisterhood