Pls join Cville NOW this Saturday 8/26 2-4pm to celebrate Women's Equality Day at FIREFLY Restaurant & Game Room. You'll find us there , hanging out with Susan B. Anthony! Bring your friends, bring your kids -- everyone is welcome! For more info: https://mailchi.mp/885f3c8345b3/news-from-cville-now-9932141?e=722cb9e085

#Charlottesville #cville #women #ERA #suffrage #NOW #abortion #reproductiverights #abortionrights #voting #Dems #DemocraticParty

Today in Labor History August 18, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This guaranteed women's right to vote. Congress first introduced a women's suffrage amendment in 1878. Before 1776, women were allowed to vote in several of the colonies, but by 1807 all the state constitutions had denied them this right. In 1848, the Seneca Falls convention adopted the Declaration of Sentiments, calling for equality between the sexes and the right to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised 26 million American women just before the 1920 U.S. presidential election. Newly enfranchised women prioritized a reform agenda, including the Sheppard–Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act of 1921, which expanded maternity care during the 1920s. This was the first federal social security law and was huge until Congress let it lapse in 1929.

In 1920, only 36% of eligible women voted (compared with 68% of men). This was due to barriers like literacy tests, long residency requirements, and poll taxes. By 1960, women were voting in greater numbers than men. However, 3 million women south of the Mason–Dixon line remained disfranchised. Election officials regularly utilized fraud, intimidation, poll taxes, and state violence to block their access to the polls. In 1926, officials in Birmingham, Alabama beat African American women who were trying to register to vote. These practices continued until the 24th Amendment, in 1962, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And they continue today with a host of new voting restrictions being imposed in mostly Republican states.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #suffrage #Vote #sexism #feminism #racism #JimCrow #VotingRights

Today in #Connecticut History, July 26: Long Before The World Was “Woke,” These Lincoln Supporters Were “Wide Awakes”

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#19thcentury #abrahamlincoln #activism #connecticuthistory #hartford #july #politicalhistory #socialmovements #suffrage #wideawakes #williambuckingham

Read #VanessaWilliamson: `Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on #democracy.` https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-austerity-politics-of-white-supremacy
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#bipartisan #raceMaking #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #SouthCarolina #Reconstruction #histoDon #agnotology #publicOpinion #history #taxes #politics #USPol #deficit #taxpayers #Redeemers #racism #Trumpism #GOP #suffrage

#VanessaWilliamson: `Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on #democracy.`
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-austerity-politics-of-white-supremacy #bipartisan #raceMaking #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #SouthCarolina #Reconstruction #histoDon #agnotology #publicOpinion #history #taxes #politics #USPol #deficit #taxpayers #Redeemers #racism #Trumpism #GOP #suffrage

On this day in 1840 the World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time. About 500 (mostly white) delegates from at least 12 countries attended. The irony was that women were excluded from participation. Many delegate countries sent women anyway, but they were forced to sit in a spectator’s gallery. Some male delegates joined them in protest. This was a catalyst for the women’s suffrage movement in the US.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Anti-Slavery_Convention

#Slavery #Suffrage #HumanRights #History #OnThisDay

This! How an end to "prison gerrymandering" will impact VA elections. AND let’s talk about #suffrage for prison inmates! Why do we think *taking away* an important civic responsibility (like voting) will help rehabilitate convicts? Let everyone vote! #suffrageforinmates #suffrageforconvicts

https://t.co/jxuJDs1AXH

Today in #Connecticut History, May 28: Preparing Connecticut Women to Assume Civic Power

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/05/28/may-28-preparing-connecticut-women-to-exercise-their-rights-as-citizens/

#20thcentury #connecticuthistory #connecticutwomansuffrageassociation #connecticutwomen #education #katherineludington #law #may #politicalhistory #politicsandgovernment #suffrage #usconstitution #women #women'ssuffrage

Excerpt from Frank Bongiorno's book Dreamers and Schemers p347
#Australia #History #Politics #Suffrage

RT @EPSUnions: Did you know that the Belgian working class was fighting for 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 130 years ago today? EPSU #LabourDictionary reveals what it is: #suffrage.

👉🏽It's not a privilege or a gift - both men & women fought for this. They died for this. They won this.

In memory of them✊🏽

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1646820846910963712

started a #wikipedia article on New Hampshire physician, suffragist, Jane Elizabeth Hoyt-Stevens (1860-1933): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elizabeth_Hoyt-Stevens #medicine #suffrage #Gandhi #Wellesley

Today in 1919, New Brunswick grants the provincial vote to women, following Nova Scotia, which did the same in 1918. Like other provinces, the vote does not extend to Asian or Indigenous women.
PEI will grant the vote in 1922, while Quebec will not do so until 1940.

#womenshistory #suffrage #voting #newbrunswick #nbpoli

Susan B. Anthony gets kicked out of a meeting for bringing an unnamed Black woman to address the crowd as an equal.
Buffalo Evening Courier, Nov. 25, 1863.
#histodons
#suffrage
#womenshistory

started a #wikipedia article on Vermont physician, suffragist, Marion L. Bugbee (1871-1950): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_L._Bugbee #WWI #AmericanRedCross
#suffrage #Brattleboro

Inspired by the fantastic map of #suffrage sites built by
@WendyLRouse, I am working on a map of important sites for the #EqualRightsAmendment. You can see this map at our website for teaching #womenshistory: https://womenshistoryinhighschool.com/projects #ERA #ERAat100 #sschat

Inspired by the fantastic map of #suffrage sites built by
@WendyLRouse, I am working on a map of important sites for the #EqualRightsAmendment. You can see this map at our website for teaching #womenshistory: https://womenshistoryinhighschool.com/projects #ERA #ERAat100 #sschat

Today in #Connecticut History, April 1: The First Pulitzer-Prize Winning Political Cartoonist

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/04/01/april-1-a-political-cartoonist-for-the-20th-century-woman-2/

#19thcentury #20thcentury #april #cdbatchelor #connecticuthistory #ctcharacters #DeepRiver #isolation #Kansas #NewYorkDailyNews #politicalcartoons #pultizerprize #suffrage #womansuffrage #women'srights #worldwarii

March is #WomensHistoryMonth in US, UK, & Australia; October for Canada.

These books, all by-&-for women♀️, arrived here yesterday, joining many more already in stock.

It was centuries of slow going from essential wisdom of the ages through witchcraft to #Suffrage. Then '50s #KinseyReport & the #SexualRevolution, #ThePill in the '60s, '70s #Choice & #WomensLib all happened in a few decades. Today... WTF is going on?

3/30/23 Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open containers, please.

#DaytonOhio

Florence Marian McNeill (1885–1973) was born #OTD, 26 March. A notable figure in Scotland’s #20thCentury literary Renaissance, her contributions include works on #suffrage, politics, #food #heritage (THE SCOTS KITCHEN remains a central text in all discussions of Scottish cuisine) & #folklore (her 4-volume study of Scotland’s folk festivals THE SILVER BOUGH)

#Scottish #Orkney #literature
#ReadMoreWomen
https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill

12/23 While the Republican Party became increasingly associated with wealth and conservatism (and a big oil discovery in Texas in 1930 drove a "new South of money-making"), the Democratic Party became increasingly associated with northern progressive ideals.

Problem was, #suffrage and the fight for equality under the law for all people was beginning to gain wider acceptance, increasing pressure on Washington to recognize eligibility of Black people and women for benefits and enfranchisement.