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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Sat May 18, 2019, 02:35 PM May 2019

Remember!! 19th amendment women's right to vote passed by Congress June 4, 1919!!

Ratified August 18, 1920!

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Remember!! 19th amendment women's right to vote passed by Congress June 4, 1919!! (Original Post) bobbieinok May 2019 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music May 2019 #1

My grandmother was born in a home without indoor plumbing or electricity struggle4progress May 2019 #2

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struggle4progress

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2. My grandmother was born in a home without indoor plumbing or electricity

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Sat May 18, 2019, 06:05 PM

May 2019

before the Wright brothers' success at Kitty Hawk. The 19th amendment hadn't even passed Congress when she had my father. She got married right after WWI. In the early 1960s, she flew from California to Europe and back. That generation must have been astonished by the changes they saw

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