August 18 2020 will be the 100th anniversary of women winning the vote in America..

[samnsara]

..Im afraid that important milestone will be overlooked by all the other equally important events of today. But I hope not...

[bobbieinok]

1. Blew me away when I realized mom was 7yo when that happened!

I remember as a kid going with her as she went to vote

IIRC she was a precinct captain at least once when I was a kid

She was a long-time member of the League of Women Voters. Very active in the local chapter. Edited the local monthly newsletter, this before computers---all cut and paste and then take to printer!

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Just 100 years ago..

To think women were not even seen as people with their own will and who could think for themselves 100 years ago.

But thanks to the women who fought we can vote.

Another reason to vote because that right was hard won against opressive white male patriarchy.

[niyad]

4. Thank you for the reminder. I wish HBO would run "Iron-Jawed Angels" repeatedly all this

Year, to remind us of what it took to get the 19th. It wasn't "given" to us. It was a battle, the scorn the assaults, the mailings, the forced feelings.

I also wish that PBS would rerun"Shoulder To Shoulder" about the Britsh suffrage movement. Or at least put it on DVDs.

[mcar]

5. The League of Women Voters had a big event planned

here in my small, red county. Our local Democratic Women's Club was very involved. It's now going to be a virtual event.

[niyad]

6. Could somebody link to the "Bad Romance-Women Suffrage" video (I can't on

This machine). Did a wonderful job depicting the struggle in just a few minutes of music, even included forced feelings, and the guy who voted "yes" because of a note from his mother.

[Lulu KC]

7. I almost wish I didn't know

how much the U.S. suffrage movement reflected white supremacy. I would imagine we'll be learning more and more about that this year. Truth hurts.