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Still need to go over why women, including Mabel rode horses in the parades.
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee - from the wikipedia page
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1897–1966) was a Chinese advocate for women's suffrage in the United States, a member of the Women's Political Equality League[1], the "de-facto minister of the Chinese Baptist Mission"[2], and the head of the First Chinese Baptist Church in New York's Chinatown for more than 40 years. She was born in China and raised in New York for the majority of her life. She attended Barnard College and Columbia University and was the first woman to receive a PhD. from Columbia University. She was a leader of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and established the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Chinese Community Center in New York City's Chinatown which were dedicated to social services for the immigrant community. She became a well-known figure in the women's suffrage movement and rode horseback in the 1912 New York pro-suffrage parade. In 1917, women in New York were allowed to vote and then in 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment allowed all American women the right to vote. However, as an immigrant, Lee was unable to vote because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.[1][3]