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BigmanPigman

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4. Some people are still not aware that the ERA NEVER PASSED!!!!!!!

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Thu Sep 28, 2017, 02:57 PM

Sep 2017

Even though the first ladies at the time were for it, women (traitors) namely Phyllis Schlafly kept it from passing. She died last year...I am sure she had a big grin on her smug "little wife" face. I hate her enormously.

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women's suffrage in 20th century [View all] niyad Sep 2017 OP

My grandmother was a working teacher adult before she could vote. Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #1

and, of course, the amendment only applied to white women. niyad Sep 2017 #2

I did not remember that. Good reminder. (Black men had the vote for many years at that point.) nt Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #3

same Dmo3 Sep 2017 #6

Some people are still not aware that the ERA NEVER PASSED!!!!!!! BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #4

to this day, I regret not running her over when I had the chance. niyad Sep 2017 #5

Women are their own worst enemies. I've never seen a group where members of that group.... Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #7

After over 2,000 years of male dominated societies, cultures and BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #8