"On May 4, 1912, at the age of 16, Lee rode on horseback in an honor guard leading a massive parade up Fifth Avenue as part of the Women's Suffrage Movement. However, despite her activism, Lee was impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from obtaining citizenship."
"This midtown walking tour reflects the U.S. extension of an Australian tour company of the same name. The company offers similar women's history tours in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong."
"I connected her with Beth who I thought would be the perfect person to do it," explained Rivera. "Beth then reached out to me for my thoughts from a tour-landscape perspective and I basically told her, okay, if you do this, I want to do it with you.""
She Shapes History's "Badass Women of New York" walking tour showcases influential women in New York City history, including Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a 16-year-old suffragist who led a 1912 Fifth Avenue parade advocating for women's voting rights. Despite her activism, Lee remained excluded from citizenship due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. The tour is co-owned by Nikki Padilla Rivera, a NYC tourism professional, and Beth Santos, a Boston-based author and founder of Wanderful, an international women's travel community. The venture represents the U.S. expansion of an Australian company offering similar women's history tours in multiple cities. The partnership formed after Rivera connected Santos with Sita Sargeant, the company's founder and CEO, who visited the U.S. seeking to expand the tour concept internationally.
Read at Time Out New York
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