#suffrage

[yesterdaysprint]

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 8, 1907

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

These MAGA fucks won't be happy until we return to a time when only straight, white, male, Christian, land-owners could vote! Women, wake up! They won't stop at taking away your right to make decisions about your own body. They want to take away your right to vote! What will be next?

[questionableadvice]

~ 10 Reasons Why the Great Majority of Women Do Not Want the Ballot, 1914

[todaysdocument]

Letter to the Committee on the Judiciary Regarding Suffrage for 18-Year Olds

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: Committee Papers of the Committee on the Judiciary

18451 Murray Hill,

Detroit, Michigan 48235

December 23, 1970

Hon. Emanuel Celler,

Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary,

House of Representatives,

Washington, D. C. 20515

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Our poor, neglected and battered Constitution has just been dealt another body blow by a faithless Congress and a faithless Supreme Court.

Section 1 of Article II provides:

The President "shall be elected as follows: Each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature may direct, a number of electors", etc.

Section 1 of Article I:

"The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature."

Amendment XVII: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of the two Senators from each State, elected by the two people thereof. ... The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature."

Congress is given authority to change the times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives. This cannot apply in any respect other than to method, which does not have anything to do with qualifications for voting.

It could not be stated in plainer language that the qualifications for voting are to be as established by each State for itself. The Congress and the Supreme Court have chosen to ignore the explicit terms, emphasized by the word "shall", and the court has again unwarrantedly departed from its judicial function to act in a legislative capacity. The plain words of the Constitution have been violated so wantonly and flagrantly by those sworn to observe them that the five Justices responsible for the decision should be impeached forthwith and Congress should repeal the 18 years voting act.

Respectfully,

George M. Montross [handwritten]

George M. Montross

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Emmeline Pankhurst, Leader of the Women's Social Political Union (WSPU), getting arrested outside Buckingham Palace in London in May 1914 while protesting for women's right to vote.

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Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and, through the Underground Railroad, led many to freedom during the 19th century. As a Union scout and spy in the Civil War, she was also the first woman to lead an armed expedition. Tubman became an advocate for women's suffrage later in her life.

In 1859, Harriet Tubman met and supported John Brown in his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War, she served as a cook, nurse, scout, and spy for the Union Army. In the Combahee River Raid, she played a vital role in freeing more than 700 enslaved individuals.

Born Araminta "Minty" Ross in March 1821 (1822) in Bucktown, Dorchester County, Maryland, and died March 10, 1913, in Auburn, New York, at the age of 90-91.

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My collection of vintage political cartoons.

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Screenland magazine, October 1934

My dear Miss Duff-- I saw Kate's play in Washington and I want to Congratulate you on what you have done to her voice[.] It's lovely! I was thrilled--she no longer talks too fast and her voice is musical and delightful. Blessings on you for all that you have done for her. I hope to meet you some day as Kate tells me that you are one of the most delightful people in the world - Thanking you for all that you have meant to her, I am, Yours faithfully, Katharine Houghton Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was a suffragette and social advocate for women's rights, including access to and knowledge of birth control. Together with Margaret Sanger, Katharine H. Hepburn co-founded the American Birth Control League, now Planned Parenthood.