Women’s Right To Vote

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Can you imagine how empowered our female ancestors felt in 1920?

Finally given the right to vote after fighting before it for so long.

I know the I feeling I get when I vote whether it’s a major or minor election.

The sense of pride and empowerment and yet humbled that my voice , all our voices will be heard and count.

Women were always told they belonged at home , in the kitchen with no voice allowing their husbands to speak for them.

I was lucky enough to get to go to Washington D.C in February 2020 and speak on Capital Hill for Rare Week 2020.

I stayed a few days and visited all the Smithsonian Centers

It was emotional for me to see how many brave women fought for the right to vote. Just think it’s only been 100 years. And for many African American women it’s only been only 35-40 years because even thought the ratification of the 19th Amendment happened in 1920. Not all states allowed blacks to vote.

The 19th Amendment did not eliminate the state laws that operated to keep Black Americans from the polls via poll taxes and literacy tests nor did the 19th Amendment address violence or lynching. Some African-American women will vote with the 19th Amendment. Some are already voting in California, New York and Illinois where state governments have authorized women’s votes. But many Black women faced the beginning of a new movement for voting rights in the summer of 1920, and it’s a struggle they will wage alone because now the organizations that had led the movement for women’s suffrage were then disbanding.

Voting today is happening because of our strong grandmothers great grandmothers and great great grandmothers who stood up to others holding them back

They were jailed , beaten when all because they voiced their opinions all for wanting to be included.

People wanted to silence them because of their own fears. ‘The Night of terror’: The suffragists who were beaten and tortured for seeking the vote. The women were clubbed, beaten and tortured by the guards at the Occoquan Workhouse. … The suffragists dubbed their treatment Nov. 14, 1917, as the “Night of Terror,” and it helped galvanize public support of the suffrage movement.

These brave selfless independent women were thinking and fighting for the future generations of women. And so today it is our duty to honor their fight and go and vote for what ever candidate you identify with and their policies.

Personally I don’t care who you vote for. Just vote.

We needed their example and because of the suffragists we women all over this great nation get to vote.

They ( men and many women alike) didn’t think women should be involved in politics.

We women have come a long way and yet still have a long way to go.

No matter if we agree or disagree on whom to vote for the important thing is to vote.

It’s the most and least we can do for our country.

To all these young women who get to vote for the first time today co congratulations and thank you for doing your part.

The male guards at the Northern Virginia prison manacled the party’s co-founder Lucy Burns by her hands to the bars above her cell and forced her to stand all night. Dorothy Day, who would later establish the Catholic Worker houses, had her arm twisted behind her back and was slammed twice over the back of an iron bench.

The guards threw suffragist Dora Lewis into a dark cell and smashed her head against an iron bed, knocking her out. Lewis’s cellmate, Alice Cosu, believing Lewis dead, suffered a heart attack and was denied medical care until the next morning.

The suffragists dubbed their treatment Nov. 14, 1917, as the “Night of Terror,” and it helped galvanize public support of the suffrage movement.