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Peacetrain

(22,877 posts) Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:33 PM Aug 2015

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The 19th Amendment passed 95 years ago today.. Women could vote

Thank you to all those wonderful suffragettes who battled in the streets and prisons.. thank you Granny, you have been gone 50 years.. but so proud of all of you

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/08/18/Passage-of-19th-Amendment-95-years-ago-could-land-suffragette-on-10-bill/2791439837094/

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The 19th Amendment passed 95 years ago today.. Women could vote (Original Post) Peacetrain Aug 2015 OP

White women...little clarification needed there- snooper2 Aug 2015 #1

???? oohhhhkkkkaaaayyyyy... and what needs clarifying? Peacetrain Aug 2015 #4

And they promptly helped elect Warren G. Harding. hobbit709 Aug 2015 #2

Would you care to explain that? Peacetrain Aug 2015 #3

Harding got a large percentage of the women's vote in 1920. hobbit709 Aug 2015 #5

Sooo...getting the right to vote.. Peacetrain Aug 2015 #6

Warren Harding is dead. Should women stop voting? shenmue Aug 2015 #7

Damned if I know.. got me more than a little confused Peacetrain Aug 2015 #8

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

1. White women...little clarification needed there-

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:37 PM

Aug 2015

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)

4. ???? oohhhhkkkkaaaayyyyy... and what needs clarifying?

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:55 PM

Aug 2015

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

2. And they promptly helped elect Warren G. Harding.

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:38 PM

Aug 2015

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)

3. Would you care to explain that?

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:54 PM

Aug 2015

Because this has got to be a good one..

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

5. Harding got a large percentage of the women's vote in 1920.

Reply to Peacetrain (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:57 PM

Aug 2015

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)

6. Sooo...getting the right to vote..

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 05:16 PM

Aug 2015

is the point.. not who benefited or did not benefit in the 1920 election..

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

7. Warren Harding is dead. Should women stop voting?

Reply to Peacetrain (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 05:37 PM

Aug 2015

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)

8. Damned if I know.. got me more than a little confused

Reply to shenmue (Reply #7)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 05:41 PM

Aug 2015

I op on the fact that today is the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment.. which was only 30 years before I was born.. not that long ago.. and I am in a conversation about Warren Harding..

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