Celebrating 98 Years of Women Voting

Wow!  Can you believe that women did not get the right to vote until the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on August 26, 1920. It was several decades later when Blacks and Black women got their right to vote.  That right has been under attack since its’ inception.

Today, women are a powerful and important voting block.  With so much at stake with the November 6, 2018 elections across the U.S., women will be the key to electing candidates who will truly represent the needs of the people instead of the needs of special interests who help regentrify our neighborhoods.  And, here in Georgia with the governor’s race, women could make history by electing the first female and first  Black governor.

Read the full article by Virginia Kase written in celebration of Women’s Equality Day:

https://www.lwv.org/blog/honoring-our-right-vote-womens-equality-day?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WomensEqualityDay

If the vote were not a powerful tool, it would not be under attack to hinder women, the poor and people of color from voting.  From the beginning, white Men wanted this privilege solely for themselves.

98th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote

 

This is an exert from Atlanta City Councilwoman Felicia Moore’s newsletter:

As you may know, us “today represents the 98th anniversary of our country’s passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.

Because of strong women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott, winning the right to vote became the centerpiece of the women’s suffrage movement.

It took 70 years to get the amendment passed.

When citizens come together in a democracy to right a wrong, it serves everyone That was true 97 years ago and it is true today.  Yes. There is strength in numbers.  With social media, it is easier to inform, educate and gather like-minded  people. With “people pressure” in the form of peaceful protests and voting the whole ballot in every election.

So are you watching what’s happening, denying what’s happening, or helping to make things happen??

Because of the internet, we can research almost everything and get information we need to make informed decisions within a few keystrokes. So, get involved in the issues you care about and it won’t take 70 years, or 70 months to effect much needed change(s) in public policy.  Today, great things can happen in 70 weeks, 70 days and 70 hours.

Read more about the women’s suffrage movement, lead by Susan B. Anthony and two rival organizations that merged to get this done:

http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States