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fandomhigh2018-11-04 07:44 pm
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Badass Women You Should Know- Monday- 2nd period
They were back in the classroom today, and the TV wasn't even out.
"Morning, everybody. I have no idea what time it is so if I'm wrong at least you all were too," Brooke greeted them. "If you've watched the news at all, or gotten on any kind of social media, or looked at your phone, you're probably aware that there's an election coming up tomorrow. And there's a history to that if you identify as a woman, because we didn't always have the right to vote in his country. Why, you ask? Because dudes. In 1848, the first convention for women's rights, called the Seneca Falls Convention, passed a resolution in favor of allowing women to vote. Mind you, even some of the female organizers thought that was extreme, which is insane. And it wasn't till 1869 that two competing suffrage organizations started. One was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the other by Lucy Stone, and eventually they merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Susan B. Anthony became the face of the whole thing. She was arrested for voting. Other women tried and were turned away. Some filed lawsuits because they weren't allowed to vote. The Supreme Court even ruled against them, so they started a campaign to make an amendment to the Constitution to put it in there.
"And you'd think this would be the end of the lecture, but nope," she went on. "Remember how I said this country used to be even more racist before? Well, people used to think it was a good idea to kidnap people from Africa and use them as slaves for a long time. And slavery was abolished in 1865, right in the middle of this, but it's not like things were suddenly easy for African Americans. Former slaves were granted citizenship, but voting rights were on a state by state basis so good luck there. Frederick Douglass, a former slave who wrote about his experiences and became an activist for equal rights for everyone, was a member of the American Equal Rights Association, and pushed for women to get the vote. Universal suffrage was discouraged, though, because some people wanted to push women getting the vote until African American men could vote, which sounds like a bullshit reason to not let anyone but white guys vote. In 1913, groups organized the first women's suffrage parade in Washington DC, the day before President Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated, and there were plenty of African American women there... and they were asked to stay at the back of the parade, because especially in the South, people were still super racist and didn't want to think that encouraging women to vote would mean more black people would want to vote. Ida B. Wells, a former slave who had arranged for many of the women to be there, refused to accept this, and apparently bowed out of the parade. However she joined the white Illinois delegation while it was going, because screw segregation. In 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment passed, meaning race wasn't a factor in voting rights, so instead they started enacting other hoops to jump through to keep anyone with a darker skin tone out of the voting booth." YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE NOW.
"In 1916, Alice Paul created the National Woman's Party, which was focused on passing the suffrage amendment. There were protests at the White House, there were hunger strikes, there were arrests. And the party had two million members. It started being allowed on a state by state basis. New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote. But in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the US Constitution, stating-" This was where the notecard was needed. "-'the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States of by any State on account of sex.' The National American Woman Suffrage Association became today's League of Women Voters, and the National Woman's Party began lobbying for full equality, which is a whole other giant fight. And it should be noted that even though women got the vote in 1920, women didn't come out to the polls in the same numbers as men until 1980. Remember, if you're able to vote, do it, because a lot of people went through a lot of terrible stuff so you could."
Brooke picked up a little stack of handouts from her desk and started passing them out. "I'm going to give you a horrifying timeline of events on who got to vote when, and also, sample ballots. Go ahead and fill them out, there's also information on who everybody is in that packet. It's not for real, that would be illegal. So just have fun."
"Morning, everybody. I have no idea what time it is so if I'm wrong at least you all were too," Brooke greeted them. "If you've watched the news at all, or gotten on any kind of social media, or looked at your phone, you're probably aware that there's an election coming up tomorrow. And there's a history to that if you identify as a woman, because we didn't always have the right to vote in his country. Why, you ask? Because dudes. In 1848, the first convention for women's rights, called the Seneca Falls Convention, passed a resolution in favor of allowing women to vote. Mind you, even some of the female organizers thought that was extreme, which is insane. And it wasn't till 1869 that two competing suffrage organizations started. One was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the other by Lucy Stone, and eventually they merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Susan B. Anthony became the face of the whole thing. She was arrested for voting. Other women tried and were turned away. Some filed lawsuits because they weren't allowed to vote. The Supreme Court even ruled against them, so they started a campaign to make an amendment to the Constitution to put it in there.
"And you'd think this would be the end of the lecture, but nope," she went on. "Remember how I said this country used to be even more racist before? Well, people used to think it was a good idea to kidnap people from Africa and use them as slaves for a long time. And slavery was abolished in 1865, right in the middle of this, but it's not like things were suddenly easy for African Americans. Former slaves were granted citizenship, but voting rights were on a state by state basis so good luck there. Frederick Douglass, a former slave who wrote about his experiences and became an activist for equal rights for everyone, was a member of the American Equal Rights Association, and pushed for women to get the vote. Universal suffrage was discouraged, though, because some people wanted to push women getting the vote until African American men could vote, which sounds like a bullshit reason to not let anyone but white guys vote. In 1913, groups organized the first women's suffrage parade in Washington DC, the day before President Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated, and there were plenty of African American women there... and they were asked to stay at the back of the parade, because especially in the South, people were still super racist and didn't want to think that encouraging women to vote would mean more black people would want to vote. Ida B. Wells, a former slave who had arranged for many of the women to be there, refused to accept this, and apparently bowed out of the parade. However she joined the white Illinois delegation while it was going, because screw segregation. In 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment passed, meaning race wasn't a factor in voting rights, so instead they started enacting other hoops to jump through to keep anyone with a darker skin tone out of the voting booth." YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE NOW.
"In 1916, Alice Paul created the National Woman's Party, which was focused on passing the suffrage amendment. There were protests at the White House, there were hunger strikes, there were arrests. And the party had two million members. It started being allowed on a state by state basis. New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote. But in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the US Constitution, stating-" This was where the notecard was needed. "-'the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States of by any State on account of sex.' The National American Woman Suffrage Association became today's League of Women Voters, and the National Woman's Party began lobbying for full equality, which is a whole other giant fight. And it should be noted that even though women got the vote in 1920, women didn't come out to the polls in the same numbers as men until 1980. Remember, if you're able to vote, do it, because a lot of people went through a lot of terrible stuff so you could."
Brooke picked up a little stack of handouts from her desk and started passing them out. "I'm going to give you a horrifying timeline of events on who got to vote when, and also, sample ballots. Go ahead and fill them out, there's also information on who everybody is in that packet. It's not for real, that would be illegal. So just have fun."