"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." G. Patton - I love this quote.
Women, please remember we were just given the vote August 26, 1920. It's hard for me to believe that up until then, my grandmothers and great aunts couldn't vote. As a reminder, I've added some text and a few pictures to illustrate what it was like then and hopefully you'll be grateful for what these women went through for us.
Also, I recommend an excellent movie based on the Women's Suffrage movement called Iron Jawed Angels. http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Iron-Jawed-Angels/60034798?strkid=525256435_0_0&strackid=4734c205cd0c93cb_0_srl&trkid=222336
"Iron Jawed Angels depicts highlights from Alice Paul and Lucy Burns' advocacy such as organizing thousands of suffragists marching in parades in NYC and DC (surviving harrassment) and protesting outside the White House, (they were called the "Silent Sentinels") holding signs that read, "Mr. President how long must women wait for liberty?" Paul and Burns along with the other suffragists, endured incarceration at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia and the District of Columbia Jail. Paul and Burns protested by instituting a hunger strike which many other women joined. The guards retaliated by beating the women and force-feeding Paul and Burns. Their efforts, along with continued press coverage of the suffragists' abusive treatment, put pressure on President Wilson, who in turn eventually pressued Congress to pass the 19th amendment."
Dorothy Day with her prison dress. On November 1917 Day went to prison for being one of forty women in front of the White House protesting women's exclusion from the electorate.
Sojouner Truth
Elizabeth S. Cady Susan B. Anthony Louisa May Alcott Alice Paul
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
REMEMBER....THE ONLY WASTED
VOTE IS A VOTE NOT CAST!
Thank you!
And thanks, Pam, for the inspiration.