CarveHerName#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
aburka 🫣@CarveHerName so she was the Rankin member?
Matt Noyes@CarveHerName @GuerillaOntologist Montana in the house!
Drums_in_the_night_🌐🇪🇺🇩🇪1/2 off topic.
Does anyone know who the smiling Chapeau-Gentleman on the left is?
Seems to be on our side.
MBEverding@CarveHerName republican
Process "Tedious" Parsnip@MBEverding I think you might be outside the US, so I wanted to add some context: while the US political establishment has never truly been liberal, the Republican party used to be more liberal than the Democrats. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. The parties began to switch roles at the end of our Civil War and completed their switch during the Great Depression, although Republicans started accelerating right during the Civil Rights Era.
Rough summary:
https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties
@ProcessParsnip @CarveHerName ah thanks for the article it clarified when they switched
WINGS_radio@CarveHerName I covered the unveiling of her statue in the Capitol, in 1985, for the New York-based WBAI Radio's show 51%: The Women's News