{"id":1041,"date":"2004-08-26T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/26\/happy-womens-equality-day\/"},"modified":"2004-08-26T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T16:52:23","slug":"happy-womens-equality-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Happy Women&#039;s Equality Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwhp.org\/events\/equality-day\/history-of-equality-day.html\">86 years ago today<\/a>, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution gave women the formal right to vote.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"19th_amendment.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/19th_amendment.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"461\" border=\"3\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much to say about Women&#8217;s Equality Day that isn&#8217;t obvious, but here are some links about the history that I thought were interesting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/digital_classroom\/lessons\/woman_suffrage\/woman_suffrage.html\">historic documents related to the 19th amendment<\/a>.\n<li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/1920womensvote.html\">1919 and 1920 <i>New York Times <\/i>articles <\/a>about the amendment.\n<li>Something kinda neat &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/creativefolk.com\/suffrage.html\">lyrics to three songs <\/a>sung by suffragettes. And a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativefolk.com\/NACW.pdf\">.pdf link <\/a>to a song sung at meetings of the National Association of Colored Women&#8217;s Clubs in the 1890s, as well.\n<li>A webpage about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/anthony\/sbahome.html\">Susan B. Anthony trial of 1873 <\/a>(Anthony was arrested for voting!).\n<li>A collection of links to <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistory.about.com\/library\/pic\/bl_p_suffrage_movement.htm\">photos of the women&#8217;s suffrage movement<\/a>.\n<li>Who were the <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistory.about.com\/library\/ency\/blwh_first_vote2.htm\">first women to vote <\/a>in the USA?\n<li>It can be hard to imagine what the arguments against suffrage were. So, anti-suffrage arguments: <a href=\"http:\/\/1912.history.ohio-state.edu\/suffrage\/interest.htm\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistory.about.com\/od\/suffrageanti\/\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/womhist.binghamton.edu\/colosuff\/doc19.htm\">here<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmagazine.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/its_womens_equa.html\">Ms. Musings <\/a>also provides a lot of Women&#8217;s Equality Day links &#8211; hers are mostly current-events rather than historical.<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s still a lot of equality yet to win &#8211; here in the US, and even more so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmagazine.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/global_stories.html\">worldwide<\/a>. But let&#8217;s permit ourselves a day to bask in past victories. And as <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/000373.html\">Vanessa at Feministing <\/a>writes, &#8221; take the day yourself to silently thank the ladies who fought so hard in the suffrage movement and loudly thank our ladies who are out there today still fighting for women&#8217;s rights!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>86 years ago today, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution gave women the formal right to vote. I don&#8217;t have much to say about Women&#8217;s Equality Day that isn&#8217;t obvious, but here are some links about the history that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}