Posted by:
Brother Of Jerry
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Date: August 18, 2020 08:02PM
My grandmother, born in 1890, was a married adult with 4 children before she was allowed to vote in this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The fight for women's suffrage started at near both the same time and same place as Mormonism: Seneca Falls, NY, 1848. Just a hop, skip and a jump from Palmyra.
Amazing that it took 70 plus years to get women the vote, and it was not a gentle battle. Neither major party ever endorsed the suffrage amendment before its passage, and only one presidential candidate endorsed it - Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 when he ran under the banner of the Progressive Party. BTW, it was the the Republican Senators that passed the amendment. They used to be the progressive party once upon a time, and the other party was the party of Jim Crow and no vote for women. Ironic, that.
Anyway, a toast to suffrage. It was a long slog for what now seems like such an obvious wrong that needed to be changed.