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mahatmakanejeeves

(70,730 posts)
Tue Jan 10, 2023, 02:32 PM Jan 2023

Fighters for women's voting rights began picketing Woodrow Wilson at White House today 1917:

Fighters for women's voting rights began picketing President Woodrow Wilson at White House today 1917:





https://democrats.org/who-we-are/our-history/

19TH AMENDMENT: WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
Under the leadership of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. Constitution was amended to grant women the right to vote. In August of 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify women’s suffrage, and it became our nation’s 19th amendment.

Ummmm, no.
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Fighters for women's voting rights began picketing Woodrow Wilson at White House today 1917: (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 OP
NO? niyad Jan 2023 #1
"No" to the notion that Woodrow Wilson exhibited mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 #2
Just wanted to make sure. The "Night of Terror" was on his watch. niyad Jan 2023 #3
The organization that is attempting to mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 #4
Thank you. I had not been aware of that. niyad Jan 2023 #5

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,730 posts)
2. "No" to the notion that Woodrow Wilson exhibited
Sat Jan 14, 2023, 02:33 PM
Jan 2023

anything even vaguely resembling “leadership” in the passage of the amendment. The protesters were hauled off to jail in Lorton, Virginia, and put on a bread and water diet.

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,730 posts)
4. The organization that is attempting to
Sat Jan 14, 2023, 02:38 PM
Jan 2023

Last edited Sat Jan 14, 2023, 03:12 PM - Edit history (1)

claim leadership on Wilson’s behalf is a bunch of fabulists.

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