2016 Postmortem
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hue
(4,949 posts)we sure can!!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Unreal Women couldn't vote.. and what they went through to win our right to vote, she.
The 19 Amendment, baby~
A suffragist demonstrates in Manhattan in the mid-1910s.
The Mother Who Saved Suffrage: Passing the 19th Amendment
"On August 18, 1920, Tennessee passed the proposed 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by a one-vote margin, becoming the 36th state to ratify the measure and clearing the way for its official adoption eight days later. Incredibly, womens suffrage in the United States ultimately hinged on an 11th-hour change of heart by a young state legislator with a very powerful mother."
Fascinating.. And, very emotional
http://www.history.com/news/the-mother-who-saved-suffrage-passing-the-19th-amendment
I hope more and more women see this, she.. thank you for sharing it.
sheshe2
(83,900 posts)A powerful video. So very well done.
Still sporting his red boutonniere but clutching his mothers letter, Burn said aye so quickly that it took his fellow legislators a few moments to register his unexpected response. With that single syllable he extended the vote to the women of America and ended half a century of tireless campaigning by generations of suffragists, including Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and, of course, Mrs. Catt. (To get the word male in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of this country 52 years of pauseless campaign, Catt wrote in her 1923 book, Woman Suffrage and Politics.)
Thanks for the link Cha.
Cha
(297,655 posts)I ask what were they so afraid of that one day women will have equal rights in every way? Yes, that will happen.. we're still working on it.
How silly and obtuse to think they could keep women down.
[font color=blue]WOMEN WIN WHEN WE VOTE![/[/font]
sheshe2
(83,900 posts)They always do. We can indeed do this .
Cha
(297,655 posts)undeniably obvious reasons.. but, getting the prospective of our history brings it all into focus. Relatively speaking it won't be much longer.
Thanks she! I'm a late bloomer to history.. what I know now I've learned on DU and the net over the years.. I'm really enjoying it now that I have time.
"The next day, Burn defended his last-minute reversal in a speech to the assembly. For the first time, he publicly expressed his personal support of universal suffrage, declaring, I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify. But he also made no secret of Miss Febbs influenceand her crucial role in the story of womens rights in the United States. I know that a mothers advice is always safest for her boy to follow, he explained, and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The challenge is ours, take the lead and run. It is time to run the American Taliban out of our country. I have been working in a voting precinct and noticed in the last election the larger ratio of black females voting, bringing their friends in to vote, I thought women could change the outcomes of elections. GOTV!!!!
sheshe2
(83,900 posts)Thank you for your work in the precincts. That is great news about the voting trends. We should run a campaign to vote in a buddy system. Not you but two!
GOTV 2014!
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)She has always been one of my greatest heroes.
sheshe2
(83,900 posts)Praise to your grandmother. I can truly understand why she was your hero!
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)DU has been my first news source for ten years. I guess it's about time I started to join in.
My grandmother was an intimidating woman. She kept you on your toes. She went to Harvard (Radcliff really) when few women even went to college. She was a suffragette and then president of the Vermont League of Women Voters. She started Citizens for the Boston Schools and marched with Martin Luther King. Not bad for a Beacon Hill lady.
sheshe2
(83,900 posts)Massachusetts born and raised here! Beacon Hill ladies rock!
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)I've been in Houston since 1980. Houston ISD recruited 29% of my graduating class at Lesley. There were no teaching jobs to be found in then. As much as I love New England, I don't think I could ever move back where the land is slanted and covered with a frozen flood. I've directed all my relatives to get married and die in the summer only, please.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)I have my first meeting with a rep from Wendy's campaign on Monday.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I'm in the Bear Creek area.
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)I work, too, but will find the time to help get this lady elected.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)We can mark him in the crazy column with Cruz. Harris county has gone Democratic in the last couple of elections and it would be nice to see Harris county lead Texas to blue