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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 19th Amendment passed 95 years ago today.. Women could vote
Thank you to all those wonderful suffragettes who battled in the streets and prisons.. thank you Granny, you have been gone 50 years.. but so proud of all of you
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/08/18/Passage-of-19th-Amendment-95-years-ago-could-land-suffragette-on-10-bill/2791439837094/
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The 19th Amendment passed 95 years ago today.. Women could vote (Original Post)
Peacetrain
Aug 2015
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snooper2
(30,151 posts)1. White women...little clarification needed there-
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)4. ???? oohhhhkkkkaaaayyyyy... and what needs clarifying?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. And they promptly helped elect Warren G. Harding.
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)3. Would you care to explain that?
Because this has got to be a good one..
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)5. Harding got a large percentage of the women's vote in 1920.
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)6. Sooo...getting the right to vote..
is the point.. not who benefited or did not benefit in the 1920 election..
shenmue
(38,506 posts)7. Warren Harding is dead. Should women stop voting?
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)8. Damned if I know.. got me more than a little confused
I op on the fact that today is the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment.. which was only 30 years before I was born.. not that long ago.. and I am in a conversation about Warren Harding..