i was watching the Reidout and Listening to Joy talking about the 19th amendment

[progressive nobody]

Did I hear Joy right. The 19th Amendment gave voting rights to white women only?

I always believed it gave all women the right to vote.


If that is true I learned something new today.

[a kennedy]

1. yup, it was only for white women.......

Take the 19th Amendment, for example. Passed by Congress in June 1919 and ratified over a year later on August 18, 1920, the 100-year-old bill was meant to guarantee all women the right to vote. The amendment stated that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

While that sounds ideal in theory, in practice many women of color found themselves unable to exercise their legal right to cast a ballot, depriving them of a voice in local and federal elections. As the New York Times noted in an editorial in their evaluation of the 19th Amendment's centennial, “millions of other women — particularly African-Americans in the Jim Crow South — remained shut out of the polls for decades” after the amendment’s ratification. That includes many Native American and Asian American women who were not granted citizenship.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/19th-amendment-anniversary-benefited-white-women

[progressive nobody]

3. wow... I feel so dumb

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Here's the text:

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xix

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


Constitutionally, ALL women of all races and ethnicities were legally recognized as citizens who could vote. However, their constitutional rights were thwarted in the Jim Crow South. But the 19th Amendment did give the right to vote to all citizens.

[progressive nobody]

4. Thanks. yeah. admitted dumb person here.