Letters from an American – The Nineteenth Amendment – eather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American

The Nineteenth Amendment

Still, as right-wing Christian nationalists supported by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are calling for an end to women’s right to vote, it seems crucial to remember the history of the drive for women’s suffrage in the United States of America. While you won’t get the full letter about it I had intended, my team put together a 3-minute video about the history, linked here.

(This is not tonight’s letter, by the way. I just couldn’t bear to let the anniversary pass without noting it.)

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Luhrs & Associates Celebrated 👩‍⚖️#WomensEqualityDay! 🇺🇸
❓Did you know, on August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed the certificate ratifying the #19thAmendment granting women the right to vote in the United States!

✨We honor these champions of the suffrage movement:✨
• Alice Paul
• Jovita Idar
• Patsy Mink
•. Ida B. Wells
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Debra Lekanoff
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie Chapman Catt

#suffragist #women #vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj1UQuJjrXI

#USpol #HeatherCoxRichardson #19thAmendment

Today is the 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, and testerical needledickbugfuckers want to do away with the 19th Amendment.

I found a YouTube account called Breaking Down Patriarchy, w/ a video called "How the United States Tried to Crush Native American Matriarchies."

#19thAmendment #NineteenthAmendment #suffragists #WomensSuffrage #votingrights #suffrage #needledickbugfuckers #fuckthepatriarchy

On this day in 1920 the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, officially became part of the U.S. Constitution: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

This day has been known since 1971 as
Women’s Equality Day.

#WomensEqualityDay #19thAmendment

Lies. Money. Racism. Distorted religion. All of the worst that we see in today’s Trump regime was present in spades in Nashville in 1920. But the suffragists didn’t give up.
God bless you, Rev. Barber!
#19ThAmendment #TrustWomen

https://substack.com/home/post/p-171092725

TODAY IN HISTORY: August 18, 1920 - Women’s Rights Take the Stand

⚖️✊💌 The 19th Amendment was ratified thanks to one young legislator flipping his vote.

Harry Burn said “aye” after his mother told him to “be a good boy.” A mother’s voice secured millions more.

#19thAmendment #WomensRights #Suffrage #Brewminate

August 18, 1920 - Women throughout the U.S. won the right to vote when the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the last of 36 states then required to approve it). An amendment for universal suffrage was first introduced in Congress in 1878, and Wyoming had granted suffrage in state law by 1890.

This amendment to enfranchise all American women had been introduced annually for 41 years without passage; it had gotten two-thirds of both houses of Congress to approve it just the year before.

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

In the Tennessee House, 24-year-old Representative Harry Burn surprised observers by casting the deciding vote for ratification. At the time of his vote, Burns had in his pocket a letter he had received from his mother urging him, "Don't forget to be a good boy" and "vote for suffrage."

#19thAmendment #Suffrage #TrustWomen

✨On this day, August 18, in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the #19thAmendment, securing women's right to vote nationwide in the United States!🗳️
👩‍⚖️ This milestone for democracy and equality culminated 72-years of fighting for the right to vote and the tireless activism by #suffragists, such as Alice Paul, Reverend Florence Randolph, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone & Carrie Chapman Catt, who founded the League of Women Voters. 🇺🇸

#WomensRightToVote #Suffrage #WomensHistory

#PeteHegseth should say if he shares this #pastor’s disdain for the #19thAmendment

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pete-hegseth-doug-wilson-women-vote-rcna224633