Why Women Should Vote ***This is Powerful***
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we sure can!!
Unreal Women couldn't vote.. and what they went through to win our right to vote, she.
The 19 Amendment, baby~
A suffragist demonstrates in Manhattan in the mid-1910s.
The Mother Who Saved Suffrage: Passing the 19th Amendment
"On August 18, 1920, Tennessee passed the proposed 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by a one-vote margin, becoming the 36th state to ratify the measure and clearing the way for its official adoption eight days later. Incredibly, women’s suffrage in the United States ultimately hinged on an 11th-hour change of heart by a young state legislator with a very powerful mother."
Fascinating.. 
And, very emotional 
http://www.history.com/news/the-mother-who-saved-suffrage-passing-the-19th-amendment
I hope more and more women see this, she.. thank you for sharing it. 
A powerful video. So very well done.
Still sporting his red boutonniere but clutching his mother’s letter, Burn said “aye” so quickly that it took his fellow legislators a few moments to register his unexpected response. With that single syllable he extended the vote to the women of America and ended half a century of tireless campaigning by generations of suffragists, including Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and, of course, Mrs. Catt. (“To get the word ‘male’ in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of this country 52 years of pauseless campaign,” Catt wrote in her 1923 book, “Woman Suffrage and Politics.”)
Thanks for the link Cha. 
I ask what were they so afraid of
that one day women will have equal rights in every way? Yes, that will happen.. we're still working on it.
How silly and obtuse to think they could keep women down.
[font color=blue]WOMEN WIN WHEN WE VOTE![/[/font]
They always do. We can indeed do this .
undeniably obvious reasons.. but, getting the prospective of our history brings it all into focus. Relatively speaking it won't be much longer.
Thanks she! I'm a late bloomer to history.. what I know now I've learned on DU and the net over the years.. I'm really enjoying it now that I have time.
"The next day, Burn defended his last-minute reversal in a speech to the assembly. For the first time, he publicly expressed his personal support of universal suffrage, declaring, “I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify.” But he also made no secret of Miss Febb’s influence—and her crucial role in the story of women’s rights in the United States. “I know that a mother’s advice is always safest for her boy to follow,” he explained, “and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification.”
