Shattered Glass
By MADELEINE M. KUNIN • AUG 8, 2016
... It took one hundred years of protest for women to gain the right to vote with the passage of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. It took another ninety-six years for the nomination of the first woman to become a major party candidate for President of the United States ...
It couldn’t have happened without Margaret Chase Smith, who, in 1964, became the first woman to seek the Republican nomination; without Shirley Chisholm, a black Congresswoman who sought the Democratic nomination in 1972; and Geraldine Ferraro, who actually accepted the Democratic nomination for vice-president in 1984.
We hold hands with each of them: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; and Abigail Adams, who wrote to her husband, John, while he was in Philadelphia working on the Constitution: “Remember the Ladies.” And still the ladies were forgotten ...
Yes, Virginia – and Lisa, Jane, Julia, Sarah, or Kimberly, you can grow up to be President.
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