I came across a speech in favor of women's suffrage from 100 years ago today by Anna Howard Shaw. It was on a list of the best 100 speeches of all time.
It says something about 1915 compared to 2015 that the speech contains 9,533 words. Today the average soundbite in TV News is 17 seconds long. If TV existed in 2015, this might have been the soundbite from that lengthy speech about women's rights:
"I have always wanted to be a policeman and I have applied to be appointed policeman and the very first question that was asked me was, "Could you knock a man down and take him to jail?"
That is some people's idea of the highest service that a policeman can render a community. Knock somebody down and take him to jail! My idea is not so much to arrest criminals as it is to prevent crime."
Women's suffrage laws before adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment[6][7]
Full suffrage
Presidential suffrage
Primary suffrage
Municipal suffrage
School, bond, or tax suffrage
Municipal suffrage in some cities
Primary suffrage in some cities
No suffrage
The Amendment was adopted when Tennessee approved it--by a single vote in their house of representatives--in 1920
It is interesting to note that Alabama didn't approve the amendment till long after it was the law of the land....On September 8, 1953.
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