Today in history: Women March for Suffrage

[Callalily]

Did you know that during the suffrage movement women were not allowed to have pockets in their clothing for fear that they would carry suffrage related pamphlets? Shameful! Women were not allowed a credit card in the early 1970s without a signature from a parent or spouse! Shameful!

Women March for Suffrage

October 23, 1915

In 1915, nearly 140 years after the founding of the United States, women still didn’t have a constitutional right to vote. But things were changing. Starting with Wyoming in 1890, 13 states had granted women the right to vote. Then, on October 23, 1915, the suffrage movement organized a massive demonstration to convince a 14th state, one of the nation’s most powerful, to stand with them.

Tens of thousands marched in a parade that traveled five miles up Fifth Avenue in New York City — the largest suffrage parade up to that point. Carrying banners with slogans like “a vote for suffrage is a vote for justice,” protesters urged New York State to put an end to one of America’s greatest hypocrisies. The moment was the result of decades-long activism that forged national leaders such as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Two weeks after the march, New York once again denied women the vote in a referendum — but progress was only impeded, not defeated. In 1917 the Empire State finally joined the suffragist ranks, and three years later, the U.S. followed suit with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

[niyad]

1. Thank you for posting this most imporrtant article. Would you consider cross-posting

in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

Omen in this country still lag behind in almost every metric. Leadership, representation, wages, family leave, maternal outcomes. And we still do not have the ERA.

Have you ver heard "March of the Women" by Ethel Smyth? I would post it, but my computer does not let me link or copy.