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In @Rewire_News today— I explain some fascinating history & how the Equal Rights Amendment + 19th Amendment are inextricably intertwined.
Today, two fights are left unwon— universal suffrage & ratification of the ERA.
#ERANow https://rewire.news/article/2020/08/18/how-to-make-the-promise-of-suffrage-a-reality/
Today, two fights are left unwon— universal suffrage & ratification of the ERA.
#ERANow https://rewire.news/article/2020/08/18/how-to-make-the-promise-of-suffrage-a-reality/
Also check out this fun, interactive suffrage + ERA timeline!
It was a blast to work on— thanks @Hegemommy & @AngryBlackLady!
#ERANow https://rewire.news/article/2020/08/18/key-moments-in-the-100-year-fight-for-women-to-vote/
It was a blast to work on— thanks @Hegemommy & @AngryBlackLady!
#ERANow https://rewire.news/article/2020/08/18/key-moments-in-the-100-year-fight-for-women-to-vote/
Suffragists like Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Zitkála-Ša & Nina Otero-Warren helped get the 19th over the finish line— but, due to racist barriers universal suffrage still isn't a reality.
As legal scholar @JulieCSuk wrote in her new book We the Women about the founding mothers of the ERA:
“It was not easy for women to get the right to vote without the right to vote."
“It was not easy for women to get the right to vote without the right to vote."
Black suffragist (& fashion icon) Mary Church Terrell risked arrest picketing the White House w Alice Paul in 1917.
After the 19th Amendment was ratified, she personally went to Paul & exhorted her to continue the campaign for suffrage until ALL women could vote.
She refused.
After the 19th Amendment was ratified, she personally went to Paul & exhorted her to continue the campaign for suffrage until ALL women could vote.
She refused.
You can hear more about the clash between suffragists Mary Church Terrell & Alice Paul on my podcast @OrdEquality! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ghost-of-alice-paul/id1492330633?i=1000463896529
Undeterred by white lady nonsense, Mary Church Terrell carried on the battle for the enfranchisement of Black women through organizations she helped found like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Association of Colored Women.
In 1923 Alice Paul introduced the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
In 1948 Mary Church Terrell took the high road & testified before Congress in *favor* of the ERA, saying, “It is absolutely necessary for women to secure the rights for which they are asking..."
In 1948 Mary Church Terrell took the high road & testified before Congress in *favor* of the ERA, saying, “It is absolutely necessary for women to secure the rights for which they are asking..."
