A dramatic battle in the Tennessee House of Representatives ends with the state ratifying the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution on August 18, 1920. After decades of struggle and protest by suffragettes across the country, the decisive vote is cast by a 24-year-old representative who reputedly changed his vote after receiving a note from his mother.
America’s suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 200 woman suffragists, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women’s rights. After approving measures asserting the right of women to educational and employment opportunities, they passed a resolution that declared “it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”
For proclaiming a woman’s right to vote, the Seneca Falls Convention was subjected to public ridicule, and some backers of women’s rights withdrew their support. However, the resolution marked the beginning of the woman suffrage movement in America.
When Carrie Chapman Catt took over from Susan B. Anthony as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900, she prioritized the push for a constitutional amendment to give women the vote. At the outset of World War I, NAWSA urged women to prove their worth to the war effort while the National Women’s Party, led by Lucy Burns and Alice Paul, engaged in civil disobedience, directly targeting President Woodrow Wilson with protests outside the White House.
Finally, facing growing pressure on multiple fronts, Wilson called a special session of congress in May of 1919 and personally appealed for women’s suffrage. Having voted down the amendment six times, Congress finally approved it, sending it to the states for ratification.
By March of 1920, just one more state was needed to ratify the 19th Amendment in order for it to become law. The Tennessee General Assembly took up the question in August, and suffragists and anti-suffragists bore down on Nashville. The State Senate voted convincingly to ratify, but the House failed to do so twice, by two votes of 48 to 48. State Rep. Harry T. Burn, a 24-year-old from McMinn County, was one of the “nay” votes. Reportedly, he had intended to vote for ratification but had been persuaded not to by telegrams from his constituents and members of his party.
Just as a third vote was set to begin, Burn received a letter from his mother, Febb Ensminger Burn, that read, in part, “Hurrah and vote for Suffrage and don’t keep them in doubt … I’ve been watching to see how you stood but have not seen anything yet … Don’t forget to be a good boy.”
On the third vote, Burn changed his mind. Thanks to his single vote, the House approved the amendment, Tennessee ratified it, and the Constitution was changed to guarantee women the right to vote.
On August 26, the amendment was formally adopted into the Constitution by proclamation of Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
Despite the ratification of the amendment and the decades-long contributions of Black women to achieve suffrage, poll taxes, local laws and other restrictions continued to block women—and men—of color from voting. It would take more than 40 years for all women to achieve voting equality.
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And that’s all she – literally, “she” – wrote. This has become the United States of Vaginica.
The country was irreversibly screwed up 7 years earlier in 1913.
1787
No, DV . . . it was 1787, seriously:
On May 25th, 1787, a group of 55 men gathered for a closed meeting in Philadelphia. Officially, it was being convened to discuss alterations to the then constitution of the United States of the Articles of Confederation. Some state legislatures had authorized their representatives to attend the meeting only on this basis, explicitly prohibiting them from considering a new constitution. To make certain that the general public did not find out about the nature of this conspiracy, the convention members swore an oath not to discuss any proceedings with the public…for the rest of their lives. The only first-hand accounts of the proceedings were published several years later after the death of the last survivor, James Madison, in 1836. The press was forbidden to attend. The meetings were held on the second floor of the building, so that would-be eavesdroppers could not hear anything. The new constitution would become the law of the land whenever nine state conventions ratified it. This was in explicit violation of the Articles, which required a unanimous vote for amendments. Thus did a group of men launch a coup-d’etat. This coup established a new national covenant in 1788, a covenant stripped of the Articles’ invocation of God, “The Great Governor of the World,” with only the old country’s name transferred for public relations’ the United States of America. Today, we would call this a trademark violation. But it worked.
http://www.garynorth.com/philadelphia.pdf
A dark, dark day in history.
dank
…and 103 years later man-babies on the internet are still crying about it. If a woman can bring a human into the world through her vagina she check a box on a ballot.
Is this you speaking, or are you strictly and only speaking for your vagina?
My queefs are more intelligible than all the rando Anon comments on TBP.
Steph, you’re very bright, and usually right. I think you’re reacting to this emotionally and personally, instead of intellectually and rationally. Which only proves you’re a woman. Which is is a good thing.
Please be rational, not defensive. You, of all people, should know what women are like. Most are emotionally neotenous, in addition to being anatomically neotenous. You frequently are rational.
“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.” ― H.L. Mencken
Facepalm.
It’s called shit posting. Notice the memes? None of my comments are serious.
Good grief.
Women voting – That guy is the cute one…….checks box.
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Steph, stop it. Slow down. Be rational, not emotional. You’re sorta proving the point. We men really would rather not chain you barefoot to a stove; but look how y’all have acted, since emancipation.
You look for savages and manly dykes to control you. Just submit, to good men – like Carol Paul to Ron Paul. She proposed to him, BTW – when she was fifteen years old . . . seventy-something years ago.
How are Q and the white hats doing? Are you still trusting the plan?
Remember the 40,000 indictments? It was true. we just didn’t know they were going to be Jan 6 defendants anf Donald Trump.
Nothing worse than some fat, batshit crazy Karen blabbing about politics.
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And our resident Qtard wonders why she’s still single.
At least you have your cats.
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Correction: Luciferian ho that practices kabbalah. I guess you could call it queef
Demonic spirits come in many forms…
You should know, and yes I agree.
Couldn’t have done it without the men. I heard the Democrats were against it and it was the Republicans who got it pushed through.
Women were treated like chattel. If men had not abandoned their roles as protectors maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Women did indeed need more rights. They had none. I don’t think voting made this country better, obviously. Look at it now. Most of what has happened since then has destroyed families and caused out of wedlock births and abortions to skyrocket.
Clearly women aren’t better off now because most of them are still unhappy and men are pretty unhappy as well.
The destruction is nearly complete. Either the pendulum will swing back towards more common sense and the country can rebuild (maybe broken up in parts) or we will live in dark ages like nothing ever experienced in modern times.
They didn’t abandon their roles. The women’s suffrage movement was a result of social issues created by so many men dying during the Civil War. It was a huge issue for women not to have any legal rights when so many of their fathers, brothers, and husbands were killed in the war.
I think I touched on that when I said women needed more rights. Did I not? And I stand by what I said. Women were either under the thumb of their fathers or their husbands. If they were single or widows, they were at the mercy of other family members to help them out or out on the street as prostitutes. If one happened to be wealthy they got by ok but most women were not wealthy.
Not so at all, they were always the power behind the throne in households…
True for some women but not most women.
Not so:
EXCERPT:
The “noble” Suffragettes were soaked in sexism, classism, racism, eugenics enthusiasm and the mindless pursuit of female privilege. The Declaration of Sentiments, widely believed to be the official manifesto of the First Wave, was nothing more than a hate-filled screed, simultaneously indicting and convicting the male sex of the wholesale criminal enslavement and subjugation of all women, through all of history.
I found a First Wave populated by terrorists and elitists who did little to conceal their malice, dishonesty and thirst for power. They were skilled at isolating any given statute from its full context and declaring it as discrimination against women, even when the overall set of laws to which it belonged conferred immense privilege on women. And always, their “reforms” focused on the one, isolated statute, always leaving those privileging women untouched.
Actually, in some States women already had the vote….And after women got the vote by Federal mandate, I guess the US stopped getting into wars…or did it?
You wrote “The women’s suffrage movement was a result of social issues created by so many men dying during the Civil War.” Was that the Civil War of 1841 to 1845 because in the above piece the Women’s Rights Convention where women’s suffrage was one of the topics of the convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls NY
Or resident Qtard is a perfect example why the 19th amendment should have never been ratified.
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Portrait of a proud woman voter.^^^^^^^^
How many memes does our resident Qtard have there ready to post? Let’s find out.
Looks like she was done. Probably started hitting the wine bottle and the xanax a little early today.
Catastrophic Amendment passes by one vote–figures..The Rothschilds were very pleased…
The piece is misleading. Two more states ratified the 19th: Connecticut and Vermont. Then other states reversed their decisions to no effect except to kiss ass. If we look at how many states expressed support for the Alien and Sedition Laws, if we look at the tax cheating that triggered the Whiskey rebellion, and if we look at the way the South fought the Civil War so gentlemanly (no Gray/Southern march to the sea, Lee was a dud I think) and rolled over like a puppy to chant the incantation called muh pledge, well, that’s our human nature. Not mine, but ours. I am going off on tangent.
Germanic White men at large prefer daddy government and are great only when ‘in the wilderness’. Men like that deserve the Steph-Karens of the world. She is only a symptom, guys. If we handle our business correctly, women will swoon or shut up. Female instincts don’t care about loser men. They are not exactly nurturers, though they can be when it suits their purposes. Why do we entertain giving them choice on such matters?
The conventional pronunciation is hi-PUR-guh[schwa]-mee. One could argue that the new definition (it seems from ‘Rollo’) deserves a new pronunciation.
I would rather have a few quality cultural brothers than share political power with the masses, white or not. Compromise is failure for the high-culture man.
https://www.tiktok.com/@chloemaxlang/video/6814155005831023878
All the way to the final scene in the movie Barbie. The thing that makes a woman human is her vagina. Only that. What a stereotypical and primitively sexist point of view. Much like all of feminism and its alphabet sexual identity offspring groups. Primitive, intellectually undeveloped, fixated on the genitals and the south end of the alimentary tract. Disturbingly primitive.
The truth is disturbingly primitive and sexist. Evo. psych. = red pill. Women are specialized for making babies, and it’s the herd social part that makes women mentally incorrigible. In a nutshell, the hypergamy video above. The womb and vagina makes women essential not human, or men would have eliminated them long ago. Genetic engineering offers us hope, just not in the hands of the current elite.
Bring back the Poll Tax. Adjusted for inflation, it’d be around $50 today, I’d guess.
The 19th Amendment: Not a good plan.