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History of Women's Battle for the Vote
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What they don't teach us in school. This is how long it took, and how many people worked for decades, to get American women the right to vote.
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Two great movies on this topic are "Not For Ourselves Alone," a very informative documentary on this subject. This one focuses mostly on the 1800s reformers, and is made by the same people who made "The Civil War." Very good.
The other is "Iron Jawed Angels." a movie with Hilary Swank, about the last, very hard push to get the 19th amendment finally ratified. You may be shocked to know what our foremothers went through so that American women could vote and finally become true members of our democratic process.
Like I said, there are things in these movies that we didn't learn about in school. For example, in the early 1900s, during a peaceful march in Washington DC, for votes for women, the marchers were attacked by an angry mob. The police did nothing to protect them.
Many women were injured, more than 100 hospitalized. Later, women demonstrating peacefully in front of the White House were arrested, thrown into harsh prisons where they were beaten, made to eat insect infested food, and One woman was hung from her wrists by handcuffs.
When they protested by going on hunger strikes, were tortured by having "feeding tubes" rammed down their throats while they were strapped down in chair. All of this went on in silence, these women were held incommunicado, no lawyers, and in solitary confinement with no visitors. ( With the exception of one woman who was the wife of a senator. Even she was allowed no contact with her husband, and had to slip a note into his pocket to inform him about how the women in the prison were being treated.)
Some members of the government tried to have their leader, Alice Paul, placed in an insane asylum. For her own good, of course. She was, you guessed it, she was unstable because she was on a hunger strike. The plan was to have her locked up in silence for the rest of her life.
Did you learn any of this in your history class?
Please watch these movies and read the timeline on the link posted above.
Yours in friendship,
Ulyssa
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Two great movies on this topic are "Not For Ourselves Alone," a very informative documentary on this subject. This one focuses mostly on the 1800s reformers, and is made by the same people who made "The Civil War." Very good.
The other is "Iron Jawed Angels." a movie with Hilary Swank, about the last, very hard push to get the 19th amendment finally ratified. You may be shocked to know what our foremothers went through so that American women could vote and finally become true members of our democratic process.
Like I said, there are things in these movies that we didn't learn about in school. For example, in the early 1900s, during a peaceful march in Washington DC, for votes for women, the marchers were attacked by an angry mob. The police did nothing to protect them.
Many women were injured, more than 100 hospitalized. Later, women demonstrating peacefully in front of the White House were arrested, thrown into harsh prisons where they were beaten, made to eat insect infested food, and One woman was hung from her wrists by handcuffs.
When they protested by going on hunger strikes, were tortured by having "feeding tubes" rammed down their throats while they were strapped down in chair. All of this went on in silence, these women were held incommunicado, no lawyers, and in solitary confinement with no visitors. ( With the exception of one woman who was the wife of a senator. Even she was allowed no contact with her husband, and had to slip a note into his pocket to inform him about how the women in the prison were being treated.)
Some members of the government tried to have their leader, Alice Paul, placed in an insane asylum. For her own good, of course. She was, you guessed it, she was unstable because she was on a hunger strike. The plan was to have her locked up in silence for the rest of her life.
Did you learn any of this in your history class?
Please watch these movies and read the timeline on the link posted above.
Yours in friendship,
Ulyssa
http:/
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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