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See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved.
See the blue box? Until then, she couldnt vote.
The yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school.
And the green one? Until then she couldnt have her own bank account.
THIS IS WHY CHANGE IS NECESSARY.
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Brava!!!
malaise
(268,698 posts)Get thee to the greatest page!
Irish_Dem
(46,502 posts)TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)Now, clearly harder to get into - and thats very real, but
Irish_Dem
(46,502 posts)almost impossible. At least in midwest, middle class society.
It started changing around 1970.
Prior to that women were wives, secretaries, teachers, nurses.
I went to grad school around 1980 and it was a mixed male/female class.
Prior to that it had always been all male.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)And some schools were not very open. I dont know yours, but there were definitely schools that were mixed in grad school before 1980.
But, we arent really disagreeing big picture. It was tough and unfair for most of our history.
BumRushDaShow
(128,470 posts)Posted on October 29, 2010 / Contributed by: Carla Garner
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Ph.D. graduation, University of Pennsylvania, 1921
Born two decades before American women won the right to vote, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander overcame obstacles as a woman and also as an African American in the elite profession of law. In 1927 she became the first black woman to gain admission to the Pennsylvania bar, beginning a long career advocating for civil and human rights.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/alexander-sadie-tanner-mossell-1898-1989/
That was back when Penn was allowing "negro" students but had a quota - basically no more than 2 (my grandfather was "quota'd" out of Penn Medical School but was accepted to Penn Dental school where he ultimately went).
One of my great-uncles (back in the late '20s) worked with Alexander in the courts and one of my aunts used to work with her for the city in Orphan's Court.
gademocrat7
(10,644 posts)Vice President Kamala Harris leading the way for women to achieve the same aspirations as men.
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)This 77 year old woman has been trying to accomplish this since 1966! Really thought we would have a woman president in 2016, and was sadly disappointed. Actually, knowing who and what DJT was, I was angry. So looking forward to Joe and Kamala! They certainly hit the ground running, much to my joy. (202 outlook: I am sleeping better, am happier and my mood has stabilized.)
and on the mood thing? Same
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ty Soph!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)We know that the left-wing philosophy is to embrace change while the right-wing philosophy is to resist change
as long as they're benefiting from the status quo. That's the gist of politics.
OldBaldy1701E
(5,088 posts)There doesn't seem to be a lot of need for change in that department, at least according to the complete lack of discussion on this topic. Which is interesting to me, as I feel this is one of the first things that needs to change.
lastlib
(23,152 posts)Unless you're Walter Cronkite, that's the dumbest phrase in the English language.
OldBaldy1701E
(5,088 posts)most used when someone does not want something to change. This is usually because the person saying it is on the positive side of whatever it is that needs to be changed.
MyOwnPeace
(16,917 posts)Not just from the "OP" (thanks, Soph!!) - but the comments! Put 'em all together and we have more well-thought-out-ideas and lessons than we've had in the past 4 years from BunkerBoy and his mis-administration!
GREAT STUFF!!!!!
HUAJIAO
(2,379 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,050 posts)I just don't know, because I remember my mom talking about saving her money in a bank in the 1940s. No mention ever of her needing a cosigner. And I'm sure mom and dad had separate bank accounts by the 60s, they had separate passbooks, which I guess is a term unknown now. It was the little ledger book that entered your debits, credits, and balance - a record of what you held in a bank.
Augiedog
(2,543 posts)Butterflylady
(3,537 posts)Kamala will be unbelievable as a VP.
llashram
(6,265 posts)niyad
(113,062 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)lastlib
(23,152 posts)There is no joy in the hole where they installed a borrowed heart.
ananda
(28,835 posts)Thank you!
debsy
(530 posts)...she would likely not have been able to vote in practice until the the 24th Amendment (abolishing pol taxes) was ratified in the Constitution (January 23, 1964 when there was no VP) and the Voting Rights Act was codified and enacted (August 6, 1965). Hubert Humphrey was VP for the VRA (just to the left of Agnew in the green box).
The Supreme Court decision in Brown vs.Board of Education was under the "Warren Court" which, according to Wikipedia, "has been recognized by many as a "Constitutional Revolution" in the liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and Loving v. Virginia (1967)." ([link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren|]).
Andrew Johnson was a "National Unionist" and didn't care at all about protecting or have an interest in freeing slaves. The only reason he was on the ticket was because Abraham Lincoln wanted to project a message of National Unity after the Civil War and Johnson, being the only senator who hadn't resigned his seat after his state (in his case, Tennessee) seceded from the United States to join the Confederate States, seemed to be the logical choice at the time.
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified on August 18, 1920) granting women the right to vote would have made Thomas Marshall the VP at the time, not Calvin Coolidge.
NOTE: Three of the boxes emphasized show Republicans from recent history and the other is Andrew Johnson (no further commentary required for him). In fact, the legislation and constitutional amendments that benefitted Americans around these times were implemented under DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS. To highlight Republicans as being in office when these transformative changes occurred is disingenuous, at best. I wonder where this image originated. It is subtle things like this that spread mis/disinformation. The message of change is a good one but the hidden message that somehow Andrew Johnson, Calvin Coolidge, Richard Nixon, and Spiro Agnew are somehow associated with Civil Rights is wrong, on so many levels.
Also, there are 55 pictures (including Madam VP, herself) but aren't there only 49 VPs in our history ([link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vice_presidents_of_the_United_States|]). Are there duplicates or something?
BarbD
(1,192 posts)However, you are correct -- we should be accurate.
billh58
(6,635 posts)49 pictures including Kamala Harris: 6 across and 8 down = 48 + Kamala = 49.
airplaneman
(1,239 posts)debsy
(530 posts)I used to be good at math!
billh58
(6,635 posts)don't worry about it...
treestar
(82,383 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,559 posts)Whoever created that should take a bow.
sandensea
(21,600 posts)Not least because it's been very hard for Faux and Lumpball to turn her into a boogeywoman, the way they turned Hillary into one (among their idiots, anyway).
PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)have been immediately before the red box, which shows Andrew Johnson.
Otherwise, very good post, and it IS a big deal for all women and people of color to have Harris as VP.
mnhtnbb
(31,374 posts)and it's Hannibal Hamlin-- his first VP--whose portrait should be precede Andrew Johnson.
PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)movie cannibal, though.
Olafjoy
(937 posts)❤️❤️❤️❤️
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)and not Sarah Palin.
electric_blue68
(14,818 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)CanonRay
(14,084 posts)Things are even crazier over here!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,583 posts)Niagara
(7,559 posts)Kick!