Thank You For Voting (HarperCollins, adult + kid editions). Bylines NYT/WSJ/Reuters. eringeigersmith@gmail.com Insta: 
Sojourner Truth, to hecklers during an 1853 women’s right speech: We’ll have our rights, see if we don’t ... You may hiss as much as you like, but it is coming.
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100 yrs ago today, w/o fanfare or Rose Garden ceremony, the 19th Amendment acknowledging women’s right to vote — but not protecting that right for all women — became official. Its champions were innovative women who would have been social media superstars.https://bookshop.org/books/thank-you-for-voting-the-maddening-enlightening-inspiring-truth-about-voting-in-america/9780062934826 …
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Susan B. Anthony, who was not afraid of the power of a spectacle, insisted they come and arrest her for “illegal” voting if officials had a problem with it. On the pride of casting her ballot in 1872, she wrote: Well I have been & gone & done it.
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Harriot Stanton Blatch in 1912, on the power of protest: “Men and women are moved by seeing marching groups of people ... far more than by listening to the most careful argument.”
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Historian Rebecca Boggs Roberts describing suffragist leader Alice Paul’s attitude: I don’t want safe. I want to march where men march. I want all of the symbolism going through the heart of federal Washington.
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“When Black women get the vote, ‘it will find in her a tower of strength of which poets have never sung, orators have never spoken and scholars have never written,” wrote Black feminist and civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs in the August 1915.’lhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/history/suffrage-racism-black-deltas-parade-washington/ …
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I’ll end with a modern day hero, the late, great Cokie Roberts, who interrupted
@NPRinskeep after he said the 19th granted women the right to vote. “No granting,” she said. “We had the right to vote as American citizens. We didn’t have to be granted it by some bunch of guys.”Show this thread -
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