in an editorial in their evaluation of the 19th Amendment's centennial, “millions of other women — particularly African-Americans in the Jim Crow South — remained shut out of the polls for decades” after the amendment’s ratification. That includes many Native American and Asian American women whoMen of color across the U.S.
As Harvard University’s Susan Ware, a historian who specializes in women's suffrage, discussed in her book“The primary beneficiaries of the 19th Amendment at first were white women and the small minority of African American women who lived in northern and western states, where there were no racial restrictions on voting,” Ware told.
Some states took it upon themselves to pass laws making it harder for minorities to vote with the creation of
88SEATTLE61 Maybe so, but it was a huge step in the right direction. If this didn't happen only white men would be running this country (like trump) and non-whites would be drinking water out of a different water fountain.
should have been all women but, it’s better then nothing i suppose
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We’ll forgive them for how they voted in 2016. Well I won't personally, but still.
What we learn is that, these white women goth for their own cause those are the women who lived in the houses of thousands of oppressers of the black communities, but peace and love am sorry am just angry. Seeing the media trying to justify
Wheb?
HollyGoNightly1 *Black women
You know, most women at the time didn’t want the right to vote, but the men pushed it forward and gave it to them anyway
Because liberals love erasing history
repeal the 19th
After you made a Young Hollywood list full of nothing but white and half white girls. Y’all bogus.
Do the 13th next!
Thank you for giving me my reading list for the weekend. I’d heard of a few of these women, but not all and I want to know more. Mary Church Terrell. Sojourner Truth. Jovita Idár. Ida B. Wells. Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett.
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