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Impolite Persuasion
On this day in 1919, the U.S. Senate passed the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony drafted the original amendment three decades earlier, but it sat for years in committee. In 1917, a group of fearless activists began picketing the White House, and after enduring repeated arrests and beatings, President Woodrow Wilson finally threw his weight behind the suffragettes: “We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?”
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Sometimes I can’t believe that women couldn’ vote 100 years ago. And I will never take that privilege for granted!
I completely agree. Tuesday, 6/5 is a perfect time to exercise our hard-fought franchise.