In view of the increasingly insane calls from the reichwing to repeal the 19A, a bit of history:

[niyad]

The 19th Amendment - A Woman's Right to Vote:

#WomensSuffrage #FullDocumentary #TwinCitiesPBS
100 Years of Women's Voting Rights | Citizen: Full-Length Documentary

By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South | The Citizenship Project | NPT

The Surprising Road to Women's Suffrage

Equality: History of Women's Movement

Ratifying the 19th Amendment | The Vote | American Experience | PBS

Division at Seneca Falls | The Vote | American Experience | PBS

Votes for women: How the suffragists won

Black History
6 Surprising Facts About the 19th Amendment

When voting rights didn't protect all women

Black Women and the Right to Vote | The History You Didn't Learn | TIME

19th Amendment: 'A Start, Not A Finish' For Suffrage | NPR

[Bayard]

1. Seriously?

I thought that was a joke. Well, they already think they own our bodies.

Next stop: Black people will count as 3/5 of a person.

[niyad]

2. I wish it were a joke. one of the idiots was the subject of severall threads here this week.

[Bettie]

6. And women, of any color

wont' count as any percentage of a person.

[niyad]

8. Exactly.

[Hekate]

3. Bookmarking!

[niyad]

7. Thank you.

[Warpy]

4. Any stupid person who tells me "men GAVE women the vote," like they can

also take it away gets told that men didn't give us anything but a hard time and that we had to grab the vote with our own bleeding hands. My gradnmother and great grandmother were ardent Suffragettes. One of my mother's early memories was of a huge Suffragette parade in NYC with both of them. They worked, they marched, they wrote, they banged on doors, and they sometimes were assaulted and a few went to prison. Men who are ignorant of history need to be told these things, again and again, until they sink in.

[niyad]

9. I honour your mother and grandmother and their courage. You are quite

correct, men "GAVE" us NOTHING.. They battled and resisted every inch of the way, down to beatings and forced feedings.

[Warpy]

11. I think my great grandmother was the driving force

I think she was all of four feet ten, was brought over by an uncle after her second husband had died, and set up in the racehorse business, owning a stable and raising them. My mother said she was tough as hell and wouldn't take any shit from any man who tried to pat her on the head and tell her to be sweet.

She got to cast that first vote in 1920 and it was one of her proudest days. She died soon afterward, one of the horses threw her. I would imagine that's how she wanted to go.

[niyad]

12. Oh my goodness, she sounds truly amazing, a true role model. Thank you

for sharing her with us.

[burrowowl]

5. Kick!

[niyad]

10. Thank you.