Daily Suffragist
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Stories of women's unfinished struggle for citizenship; most by @RachelBTiven. 📷 Voters in Louisville KY 1920 @UofLlibraries Centennial year posts archived ⬇️
On January 10, 1878, Senator Aaron Sargent of California introduced what should have been the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. It began “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.”
Tennessee Republicans are voting to expel 3 Democratic lawmakers from the State House for having led pro-gun-control chants after a mass shooting at an elementary school last week. They've been removed from committees and stripped of their House IDs jezebel.com/tennessee-repu…
In 1910 Smyth saw Emmeline Pankhurst speak, and fell in love with the woman and the cause. They traveled together, often in disguise. Here, Mrs. Pankhurst is being arrested in 1913 outside Smyth’s home - Ethel holding the umbrella; Emmeline on Ethel’s knee.
