On September 30, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson gives a speech before Congress in support of guaranteeing women the right to vote. Although the House of Representatives had approved a 19th constitutional amendment giving women suffrage, the Senate had yet to vote on the measure.
Wilson had actually maintained a somewhat lukewarm attitude toward women’s suffrage throughout his first term (1913-1917). In 1917, he had been picketed by suffragists outside the White House who berated him for paying mere lip service to their cause. The protests reached a crescendo when several women were arrested, jailed and went on a hunger strike.
Wilson was appalled to learn that the jailed suffragists were being force-fed and he finally stepped in to champion their cause. Suffragists and their supporters agreed that Wilson had a debt to pay to the country’s women, who at the time were asked to support their sons and husbands fighting overseas in the First World War and who were contributing to the war effort on the home front.
In his September 30 speech to Congress, Wilson acknowledged this debt, saying “we have made partners of the women in this war…Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?”
Wilson’s stirring words on that day failed to drum up the necessary votes to pass the amendment. The bill died in the Senate and it would be another year before Congress finally passed the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.
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Just another terrible idea from this asshole professor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZKvmzwv97U
ha ha ha …
Womens
suffrage had been a ground-swelling for approximately seven decades beforeOl Woodie mentioned it to Congress (as a war act), just as much as FDRs "New Deal" and Johnsons “Great Society”. As soon as the Pol sniffed new votes all bets were off. It was a Republican, who in a stump speech claimed “The end of poverty in our lifetime, as we know it” and later in a newspaper interview included Americas first call for a chicken in every pot (for the ladies) and a car in every garage.(natch, for the guys). The candidate? Herbert Hoover. Soon afterwards, The Great Depression.God, what an awful President, almost worse than Lincoln. Responsible for Passing the Federal reserve act, getting the permanent creation of the Federal income tax, and then getting the US involved in WWI, resulting in the deaths of about 100,000 Americans in Europe, in a war we had no business in. All while campaigning on, and getting reelected on a platform of noninvolment on WWI. I think we all know who he worked for, and it wasn’t the American people. Death is too good for SOB’s like this, thankfully, he suffered a stroke and paid with a little bit of pain before he went off to hell.