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primeideal) wrote2020-08-18 09:19 pm
primeideal) wrote2020-08-18 09:19 pm
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Wiki Wanderings: Mrs. Catt and the "Rat"s
Today is the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment in the USA. The deciding vote was cast by a 24-year-old man from Tennessee, whose mother had written to him in support of the amendment.
The country still had, and still continues to have, lots to do in building a "more perfect union," but there have been many steps in that pursuit.
(Coincidentally, I'm looking into seeing if I can be an election judge at my polling place this fall, the standard demographic seems to be seniors/retirees and that's not really ideal things being how they are. My grandmother did a lot of election judging back in "the day.")
The country still had, and still continues to have, lots to do in building a "more perfect union," but there have been many steps in that pursuit.
(Coincidentally, I'm looking into seeing if I can be an election judge at my polling place this fall, the standard demographic seems to be seniors/retirees and that's not really ideal things being how they are. My grandmother did a lot of election judging back in "the day.")