Today is the 87th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment.

[Katherine Brengle]

How about some love for that?

[EFerrari]

1. Yeah! Something that's older than me.

:woohoo:

[Katherine Brengle]

2. lol

[valerief]

3. Ah, to be 19 again. nt

[EFerrari]

26. The Cuervo Gold, the fine Columbian

:rofl:

[valerief]

31. The mad sex, the 23-inch waist. nt

[EFerrari]

33. a wonderful thing

:toast:

[NYC]

4. Women's Right to Vote. 1920.

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=63


Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.


19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)

The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

Beginning in the 1800s, women organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose. Between 1878, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and August 18, 1920, when it was ratified, champions of voting rights for women worked tirelessly, but strategies for achieving their goal varied. Some pursued a strategy of passing suffrage acts in each state—nine western states adopted woman suffrage legislation by 1912. Others challenged male-only voting laws in the courts. Militant suffragists used tactics such as parades, silent vigils, and hunger strikes. Often supporters met fierce resistance. Opponents heckled, jailed, and sometimes physically abused them.

By 1916, almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united behind the goal of a constitutional amendment. When New York adopted woman suffrage in 1917 and President Wilson changed his position to support an amendment in 1918, the political balance began to shift.

On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and 2 weeks later, the Senate followed. When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the states. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on August 26, 1920, changing the face of the American electorate forever.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Women vote!

Now, how about more equality by the media (I HATE the female stereotypes still portrayed through commercials, and the general attitude that women are still less than men of all races and cultures within the boundaries of our nation.)

Women Rock! Women Vote!

[kdmorris]

6. Some love

Those were strong women. The suffering they went through to win us the right to vote should never be forgotten. Some were committed to mental hospitals, many were beaten, and some were locked away by angry fathers, husbands and brothers.

Hopefully, no one who goes to the voting box now forgets the struggle of these brave women nor takes their vote for granted.

[Katherine Brengle]

10. Amen to that.

Unfortunately, I think most think nothing of it to be honest.

I still get an adrenalin rush when I vote.

[kdmorris]

16. Yes, I believe so, too.

My oldest daughter seems to have forgotten all the lessons I tried to teach her and "didn't have time to vote" in 2006.

It was a huge disappointment, but we tried. We'll see if the other two got it.

[Bjornsdotter]

7. 144 years

...it took 72 years for the Suffragette Movement to begin and another 72 years to obtain the right to vote.

It's been 231 years and I'm still waiting for Equal Rights...

:hug: for all of the brave women who fought for our right to vote and are still fighting for our rights

[Katherine Brengle]

11. Well said.

Still waiting. Still fighting.

[WillyT]

8. Love !!! - And Some Cro-Magnum Freepers !!!

I'm not completely sure how that cartoon was supposed to be taken back then, LOL!

But I love the four idiots in the Opposition booth.

Google images has many a pic for viewing here: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=women's+suffrage+movement&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Happy 87th to ALL of us!!!

:bounce::patriot::bounce:

:hi:

[pnorman]

22. That outfit in the lower photo ("NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OPPOSED TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE"),

was closely associated with another "women's" organization --- "The Woman Patriot Corporation". Here what was proclaimed on the first page of it's weekly newspaper: "FOR THE HOME AND NATIONAL DEFENSE, AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE, FEMINISM, AND SOCIALISM".

One of their goals was to "keep Einstein out of America", and here's some of their attempt:
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In the following years, Einstein lent his name and, occasionally, his presence to a variety of organizations dedicated to peace and disarmament. Such activities inspired an organization known as the Woman Patriot Corporation to write a 16-page letter to the State Department, the first item in Einstein's file, in 1932, arguing that Einstein should not be allowed into the United States. "Not even Stalin himself" was affiliated with so many anarchic-Communist groups, the letter said."
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http://foi.missouri.edu/classdeclass/einstein.html


pnorman

[WillyT]

23. Oy... Thanks For The Info !!!

:hi:

[Annces]

9. It would be nice

to see an article on the Goddess religions of Greece or Priestesses. I have read a scattering of books, but not that many. I currently have a book by Norma Lorre Goodrich. I was looking for some articles on the web, but get lost too easily. It would be good to bring out these kind of role models for women.

[Katherine Brengle]

12. There are a lot of books out there on this, but they are definitely

marginalized compared to traditional male-centered histories.

When God was a Woman is a good one.

Right now I am reading The Chalice and The Blade, which is good so far, still just getting into it though.

(Sorry the author names escape me and neither book is close by.)

[DURHAM D]

13. A tribute to my Grandmother -

She was one of those women who took the streets - risking separation from family and community ridicule. She took my Dad (a toddler) out with her. She died a few months after I was born so I didn't have a chance to know her but, I still know her. She has never not been a part of me.

Peace.

[Madspirit]

14. k&r

...and yes, "When God Was a Woman" is great...

Lee

[kath]

15. A big WOO-HOO to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony!

Ken Burns did a WONDERFUL documentary on them called "Not For Ourselves Alone". I highly recommend it. Netflix carries it. Your local library probably has it. Rent it and watch it this week, in honor of this 87th anniversary.

Sadly, neither of these two amazing women lived to see the amendment ratified. :-(

[bobthedrummer]

17. 19th Amendment

:loveya:

[annabanana]

18. It's not that long ago, gals! (dial-up

(Remind your daughters, nieces and granddaughters...)

ridiculed:




arrested:



force-fed:


unstoppable:



A toast to our grandmothers!

[bleedingheart]

19. I attended a luncheon with the League of Women Voters to celebrate the fact

about 7 years ago...I knew one woman who was a member of the League and the Democratic Party who remembered voting for the first time as a result of the passage of that amendment...she was 22 at the time..

She has since passed...

[struggle4progress]

20. But why did they have to take to the streets? Why couldn't they just stay at home

and ask their husbands for suffrage?

Instead they went on a criminal rampage, vandalizing property
http://www.washington.edu.nyud.net:8090/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Graphics/Suffragettes.jpg

American cities were terrorized by suffragette gangs
http://www.photosofoldamerica.com.nyud.net:8090/webart/large/133.jpg

Here they are, rioting in Washington
http://www.historycentral.com.nyud.net:8090/WStage/Suffragettes.jpg

This photo shows them trying to burn down the White House
http://www.whitehousehistory.org.nyud.net:8090/04/subs_pph/images/uploads/28/1496.jpg

We should also remember that some of them wore pants
http://images.wisconsinhistory.org.nyud.net:8090/700003030021/0303000460-l.jpg

Across the country, innocent girls were corrupted by suffragettes
http://ran.org.nyud.net:8090/uploads/pics/cms_why_suffragettes.jpg

Unsurprisingly, lawlessness spread internationally: here, a suffragette viciously attacks the police in England
http://www.hastingspress.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/history/pics/1910-3.jpg

[EFerrari]

28. OMG, not PANTS!

LOL

:hi:

[JVS]

32. ugly pants

[EFerrari]

34. Still a mile away from shrouds or hoop skirts.

:)

[RestoreGore]

21. And it was a grassroots effort

THANK YOU to all of the women who stood up for the constitution and risked their lives to give us what we should always have had. Alice Paul is one my historical heroines. They showed exactly what can be accomplished by the power of the people.

[EFerrari]

30. My grandma was the first woman to get a driver's license in El Salvador.

She told me that she really didn't aim on purpose. :evilgrin:

[burrowowl]

24. Hey fellow women, kick this thread!

And why did it take so long!

[Mnemosyne]

25. This needs a big

:kick: for those that made our vote possible!:patriot:

[EFerrari]

27. Okay!

:kick:

[libnnc]

29. My great grandmother was 31 when she could finally vote

never missed an election after that.

She lived to be 102.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

35. There was an episode on "The Man Show" quite a while back..

Where they set up a booth at a fair somewhere dedicated to getting people to sign a petition for "Ending Women's Suffrage". I was dismayed, but unsurprised, at how many women they got to sign that petition.

And before anyone says anything about my viewing habits, I only watched the show for the "girls on trampolines" segment. :D

[Disturbed]

36. Which country was the first to allow women to vote?

Yea, I know the answer. Maybe someone else here does, also?

[BlooInBloo]

39. More importantly, perhaps: which will be the last?

[BlooInBloo]

38. Men don't have a monopoly on stupidity, we're just louder about it.

[BlooInBloo]

37. Here's to women's suffrage!

:toast: