The Nineteenth Amendment - Suffrage

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.

Suffrage for Women, how ignorant could we be as a nation denying to the women who not only supported the country through the Revolutionary War, but several others even through the recent Great War!!  It took both violence and non violent protests to bring the country around to realize that women are people, nay citizens as well!

School House Rock Video - Cartooned History

 

Where are the educational cartoons of yeasteryear??  Here we have the acclaimed educational series School House Rock speaking about the Womens Suffrage movement.  We can see how this was not a house divided amongst only women and men, but also a country divided between the West and the East!  How is it that a particular state can give the right to vote to women, but another state deny that same right already afforded to them??  This was one of the large reasons that Womens Suffrage was a "progressive movement" as the expansion out west was progressive in its own right. 

A Little more of a Concise Historical Recollection

 

Here we have a little more of a historical retrospect of Womens Suffrage.  Also we have mention of that lady on the quarters which are the same size as the dollar, Susan B. Anthony.  Not only do we see that giving the women the right to vote as helping to populate states in the West, we also see that after the Great War we see states that are granting only partial voting rights to women as an act of measure in faith or what not.  Did this help or hinder the cause?  We see that there was a particular woman who took to militant tactics and left the Susan B Anthony organization.  Should women have had the right to vote to begin with, yes.  Are there people in history with crazy ideas, yes!!  Did America finally come to her senses and allow women the right to vote, even on the men they gave birth to, eventually.