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![Tanya Brooks rode on a bus overnight from Bay City, Mich., to attend the Women's March in Washington, D.C. She also attended the inaugural Women's March in 2017.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/e9c1412/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1848+0+75/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20180915_harlan_adamrippon-1-20_custom-173c3fc903e6f516592b66d69acc67d8afeb4170.jpg)
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![Crowds gathered in Washington, D.C. for third annual march despite reports of rain and snow.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/b862b39/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1848+0+75/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Famr-march7-21_custom-1079192f4cb01e8f7c64f6de09bb540a0206bc3f.jpg)
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![The demonstrators took to the streets just weeks after <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665019211/a-record-number-of-women-will-serve-in-congress-with-potentially-more-to-come">women were sworn into Congress</a> in record numbers.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/02f627b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2302x1418+0+59/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Fimage-from-ios-1--22_custom-0de572c3f374e50aa59d7b6bcb9aae3012176b2e.jpg)
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![D.C. resident Anne Seymour participates in the march.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/75dd3a7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2994x1844+0+77/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F01192019_harlan_womensmarch_1-23_custom-2a22eb704b30834d1bb74d30c33ca857931d10ad.jpg)
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![Medea Benjamin (left), who lives in D.C., and California resident Ellen Sturtz greet each other at the Women's March. The friends hadn't seen one another for a number of years.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/f1767b6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1848+0+75/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20180915_harlan_adamrippon-3-24_custom-417e3e04591e44ebea396eefd7eaa522d22e0bd1.jpg)
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![Marches also took place nationwide from New York to San Francisco, to Dallas, Philadelphia and Portland, Maine.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/8bdecae/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1571x968+0+41/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Fimage-from-ios-1-amr-25_custom-2943ee334f4f5b2141550352b5cac1fe0c63a741.jpg)
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![The Batala Washington all-women Afro-Brazilian band.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/e314804/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1848+0+75/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20180915_harlan_adamrippon-6-29_custom-7844973716bbc969dd65401a50dc28cbddea875a.jpg)
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![Demonstrators raised signs about LGBTQ rights, #BlackLivesMatter and immigration, as well as a myriad of posters referencing President Trump.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/e358770/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2617x1612+0+188/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20190119-harlan-womensmarch-1-32_custom-2dbb87d73a503293d6397d7973cbf88b1ca8929c.jpg)
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![Bryana Moore, Veronika Funke, Nancy Haugh, students at James Madison University (JMU), and Katie Lese, a lecturer at JMU, traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Women's March.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/ba8ca76/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2994x1844+0+77/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20180915_harlan_adamrippon-4-33_custom-fc8a9ba3c36572ace1c74f001f6ea22892982dd5.jpg)
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![Marchers head toward Freedom plaza during the 2019 Women's March in Washington, D.C.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/caa60ba/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1848+0+75/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20180915_harlan_adamrippon-9-34_custom-bcbb5d89219b484f9fd71fda8d42db284cc0e361.jpg)
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![Sisters Lizzie and Helen Greene attend the Women's March in D.C. with their parents.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/2dbfad5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1848+0+75/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20180915_harlan_adamrippon-7-35_custom-a5358f69dbdea176d9b2e50f8de916e52a5ad424.jpg)
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![Virginia Gordon, 96 (seated in wheelchair) from Champagne, Ill., leads a family cohort of four generations of women attending the Women's March.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/7a3dbcb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2994x1844+0+107/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20190119_womensmarch_turner05-36_custom-d8e7382cf417dec083bf1f2d00c0292d1b5dd677.jpg)
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![Krista Bombardier, of Lynchburg, Va., yells as she passes anti-abortion demonstrators near the Trump International Hotel.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/be79c78/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2994x1844+0+77/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2F20190119_womensmarch_turner03-39_custom-cccbd57dbfd11fdff416c6cee841a02ed540badf.jpg)
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![Marchers in Washington gathered in Freedom Plaza, unlike the previous two marches, which had taken place on the National Mall.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/216310b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1848+0+78/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Famr-march5-42_custom-d46cc839886ce2e81b4b5a6a3a2e1350ea8ae4ea.jpg)
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