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Yesterday was National Voter Registration Day in the USA! For more detail check out this website here: nationalvoterregistrationday.org And make sure you are registered to VOTE!!!!!!
This year in America, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that legally gave women the right to vote!
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By August 1920 thirty-five states had ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. One more state was needed for full ratification, and the state of Tennessee ratified it on August 18, 1920.
For a very long time I thought this meant that if I had live 100 years ago I would be able to vote. A couple days ago, I learned that wasn’t true for women in my home state.
After ratification the 19th amendment continued to be challenged. Georgia's women still could not vote in that year's November elections. Georgia, along with Mississippi, cited a requirement that one must be registered six months before the election in order to vote. Because the legislature refused to pass an "enabling act" to make voting immediately possible, Georgia women could not vote in a national election until 1922. In fact, the amendment was not officially ratified and approved by the state legislature until 1970.
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Also when the 19th Amendment was ratified, Black and other minority voters in the Deep South remained suppressed by Jim Crow laws that enforced taxes, tests, and other measures that skirted the 15th amendment until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 established federal oversight. Indigenous people—women and men alike—weren't declared US citizens until 1924. Native American tribes struggled for the vote state by state until 1957, when Utah became the last to grant it.
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This year is a momentous one for sure, but it’s not the end of the story. It’s a time for celebration, reflection, checking your voter registration, and seeing where your polling place is. vote.org/polling-place-locator
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I’m also really excited because this is the first time something I’ve made is being displayed in a museum as part of an exhibit! negahc.org
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Support me on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/historicalbelle
Yesterday was National Voter Registration Day in the USA! For more detail check out this website here: nationalvoterregistrationday.org And make sure you are registered to VOTE!!!!!!
This year in America, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that legally gave women the right to vote!
.
By August 1920 thirty-five states had ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. One more state was needed for full ratification, and the state of Tennessee ratified it on August 18, 1920.
For a very long time I thought this meant that if I had live 100 years ago I would be able to vote. A couple days ago, I learned that wasn’t true for women in my home state.
After ratification the 19th amendment continued to be challenged. Georgia's women still could not vote in that year's November elections. Georgia, along with Mississippi, cited a requirement that one must be registered six months before the election in order to vote. Because the legislature refused to pass an "enabling act" to make voting immediately possible, Georgia women could not vote in a national election until 1922. In fact, the amendment was not officially ratified and approved by the state legislature until 1970.
.
Also when the 19th Amendment was ratified, Black and other minority voters in the Deep South remained suppressed by Jim Crow laws that enforced taxes, tests, and other measures that skirted the 15th amendment until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 established federal oversight. Indigenous people—women and men alike—weren't declared US citizens until 1924. Native American tribes struggled for the vote state by state until 1957, when Utah became the last to grant it.
.
This year is a momentous one for sure, but it’s not the end of the story. It’s a time for celebration, reflection, checking your voter registration, and seeing where your polling place is. vote.org/polling-place-locator
.
I’m also really excited because this is the first time something I’ve made is being displayed in a museum as part of an exhibit! negahc.org
.
Support me on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/historicalbelle
