Okla-homey
6/4/2007, 05:43 AM
Eighty-eight years later, the wife of a former president is now running for the job herself. If she wins, it will be because she is able to win the female vote.
June 4, 1919: Congress passes the 19th Amendment
Eighty-eight years ago on this day in 1919, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/5531/march2ax.jpg
Suffrage Marchers...I think that "valley of never" part is a veiled refrence to how often men who won't support womens voting are likely to get the nookie.
The women's suffrage movement was founded in the mid-19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 240 woman suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met in Seneca Falls, New York, to assert the right of women to vote.
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/3126/stanton23vh.jpg
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/6055/mott0vd.gif
Lucretia Mott
Female enfranchisement was still largely opposed by most Americans, and the distraction of the North-South conflict and subsequent Civil War precluded further discussion. During the Reconstruction Era, the 15th Amendment was adopted, granting black men the right to vote, but the Republican-dominated Congress failed to expand its progressive radicalism into the sphere of gender.
In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Another organization, the American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was organized in the same year to work through the state legislatures.
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/3332/10246lv.jpg
Lucy Stone
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/2144/susanbanthony7fm.jpg
Susan B. Anthony
In 1890, these two societies were united as the "National American Woman Suffrage Association." That year, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote.
Both sides of the whole womens suffrage issue published propaganda of course. Here are a couple examples....
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/9199/10144kk.jpg
The Anti-women's voting perspective
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/2476/source1bimg4fy.jpg
The Women's suffrage perspective
By the beginning of the 20th century, the role of women in American society was changing drastically; women were working more, receiving a better education, bearing fewer children, and several states had authorized female suffrage. In 1913, the National Woman's party organized the voting power of these enfranchised women to elect congressional representatives who supported woman suffrage, and by 1916 both the Democratic and Republican parties openly endorsed female enfranchisement.
In 1919, the 19th Amendment, which stated that "the rights 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," passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land. Eight days later, the 19th Amendment took effect.
Note: You've probably heard of Anthony, Stanton and Mott, but I for one had read nothing about Stone until now. To me, she seems like the coolest of the "four horsewomen of womens suffrage" (my nickname, I don't think anyone else calls them that.) :D
Anyhoo, here's a little more on Lucy Stone,
She was born in Massachusetts in 1818. From childhood, she questioned her father's right to rule the household and her brother's right to be educated when she was the better student. When told that the Bible gave men the right to rule over women, she vowed to learn Greek and Hebrew so she could read the ancient manuscripts for herself. Spunky huh? Since her father would not pay for her education, she supported herself by teaching and put herself through Oberlin College in Ohio, becoming the first Massachusetts woman to earn a college degree. Yeah baby!
She then became an activist for abolition and women's rights. Her radicalism made her a famous name and enabled her to earn a living by charging admission to her lectures. She helped organize the Seneca Falls women's rights convention in 1848. At the 1850 Worchester convention, she is credited with recruiting fellow abolitionist Susan B. Anthony to the women's rights cause.
In 1853, Lucy Stone married Henry Blackwell, a businessman who also supported abolition and women's rights. She caused a sensation by keeping her own name after the marriage. After taking time off to raise a daughter, Stone jumped back into the fray after the Civil War, campaigning both for black and women's suffrage.
She split with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton over the issue (Stanton and Anthony were angered that women were denied the vote when it was granted to black men). Thus, in my humble opinion, Stanton and Anthony were hypocrits and Stone should have been the one put on that dollar coin nobody liked -- besides, she was better looking too. :D
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/1364/lucystone6jh.jpg
Lucy Stone in her younger days
From then on, the feuding Anthony and Stone led rival factions of the women's suffrage movement.
http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/17430/2001957139894021592_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001957139894021592)
June 4, 1919: Congress passes the 19th Amendment
Eighty-eight years ago on this day in 1919, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/5531/march2ax.jpg
Suffrage Marchers...I think that "valley of never" part is a veiled refrence to how often men who won't support womens voting are likely to get the nookie.
The women's suffrage movement was founded in the mid-19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 240 woman suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met in Seneca Falls, New York, to assert the right of women to vote.
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/3126/stanton23vh.jpg
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/6055/mott0vd.gif
Lucretia Mott
Female enfranchisement was still largely opposed by most Americans, and the distraction of the North-South conflict and subsequent Civil War precluded further discussion. During the Reconstruction Era, the 15th Amendment was adopted, granting black men the right to vote, but the Republican-dominated Congress failed to expand its progressive radicalism into the sphere of gender.
In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Another organization, the American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was organized in the same year to work through the state legislatures.
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/3332/10246lv.jpg
Lucy Stone
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/2144/susanbanthony7fm.jpg
Susan B. Anthony
In 1890, these two societies were united as the "National American Woman Suffrage Association." That year, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote.
Both sides of the whole womens suffrage issue published propaganda of course. Here are a couple examples....
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/9199/10144kk.jpg
The Anti-women's voting perspective
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/2476/source1bimg4fy.jpg
The Women's suffrage perspective
By the beginning of the 20th century, the role of women in American society was changing drastically; women were working more, receiving a better education, bearing fewer children, and several states had authorized female suffrage. In 1913, the National Woman's party organized the voting power of these enfranchised women to elect congressional representatives who supported woman suffrage, and by 1916 both the Democratic and Republican parties openly endorsed female enfranchisement.
In 1919, the 19th Amendment, which stated that "the rights 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," passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land. Eight days later, the 19th Amendment took effect.
Note: You've probably heard of Anthony, Stanton and Mott, but I for one had read nothing about Stone until now. To me, she seems like the coolest of the "four horsewomen of womens suffrage" (my nickname, I don't think anyone else calls them that.) :D
Anyhoo, here's a little more on Lucy Stone,
She was born in Massachusetts in 1818. From childhood, she questioned her father's right to rule the household and her brother's right to be educated when she was the better student. When told that the Bible gave men the right to rule over women, she vowed to learn Greek and Hebrew so she could read the ancient manuscripts for herself. Spunky huh? Since her father would not pay for her education, she supported herself by teaching and put herself through Oberlin College in Ohio, becoming the first Massachusetts woman to earn a college degree. Yeah baby!
She then became an activist for abolition and women's rights. Her radicalism made her a famous name and enabled her to earn a living by charging admission to her lectures. She helped organize the Seneca Falls women's rights convention in 1848. At the 1850 Worchester convention, she is credited with recruiting fellow abolitionist Susan B. Anthony to the women's rights cause.
In 1853, Lucy Stone married Henry Blackwell, a businessman who also supported abolition and women's rights. She caused a sensation by keeping her own name after the marriage. After taking time off to raise a daughter, Stone jumped back into the fray after the Civil War, campaigning both for black and women's suffrage.
She split with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton over the issue (Stanton and Anthony were angered that women were denied the vote when it was granted to black men). Thus, in my humble opinion, Stanton and Anthony were hypocrits and Stone should have been the one put on that dollar coin nobody liked -- besides, she was better looking too. :D
http://img228.echo.cx/img228/1364/lucystone6jh.jpg
Lucy Stone in her younger days
From then on, the feuding Anthony and Stone led rival factions of the women's suffrage movement.
http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/17430/2001957139894021592_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001957139894021592)