Top Photo: Women were jailed for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote, L-R: Alice Paul, (tied to a chair) Dora Lewis, (hurled into a dark cell) Lucy Burns, (beaten) women given right to vote in 1920This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. Thus began the "Night of Terror," November 15th, 1917.
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because- -why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining? We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote Democratic, Republican or Independent Party - remember to vote.
History is being made. (submitted by Liz Ortiz)
Senator Clinton and Governor Palin are proof that women can and do diverge on important issues.
ReplyDeleteEven on the question of whether women should vote!
Most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won votes for women, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did.
Suffragettes were opposed by many women who were what was known as 'anti.'
The most influential 'anti' lived in the White House. First Lady Edith Wilson was a Washington widow who married President Wilson in 1915, after the death of his pro-suffrage wife.
The First Lady's role in Wilson's decision to jail and torture Alice Paul and hundreds of other suffragettes will never be fully known, but she was outraged that these women picketed her husband's White House.
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