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Beginning in her days at Vassar College in 1905, lawyer and activist Inez Milholland was an advocate for various social causes: worker's rights, racial justice, prison reform, and more. her advocacy work would catapult her to national prominence, most notably when, astride a white horse and garbed in a flowing cape, she led the 1913 Women's Suffrage Procession in Washington, DC, thereby becoming the face of the US suffrage movement.