How Texas Prevented Black Women From Voting Decades After The 19th Amendment

[TexasTowelie]

In 1918, when she was 25 years old, Christia Adair went door-to-door organizing for women’s right to vote in Texas.

“This effort was to pass a bill where women would be able to vote like men,” Adair remembered later in a 1977 oral history interview with the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.

“Well, we still didn’t know that that didn’t mean us. But we helped.”

When the bill passed, Adair went to the polls for the first time. The memory of what happened stuck with her the rest of her life.

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/2019/06/28/338050/100-years-ago-with-womens-suffrage-black-women-in-texas-didnt-get-the-right-to-vote/

[murielm99]

1. K&R.

Everyone, please read the entire article. It is clear that this fight is not over. Democrats, especially black Democrats, will experience voter suppression in large numbers in 2020. We must not allow this.