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The 19th Amendment by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Eighty-eight years ago on this day in people’s history, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution was finally passed giving women the right to vote. On August 26th, 1920, the thirty-nine words of the amendment that enfranchised women across the nation had its thirty-six state ratification certified. In the end, it took a “War of the Roses” in the Tennessee State Legislature to secure by one vote the final state needed to sign onto the long sought after objective of the women’s suffrage movement. The right to vote, however, was not enough for some prominent leaders in the women’s movement. Socialist Helen Keller wrote years before the 19th amendment that, “We vote? What does that mean? We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.”

But why did it take so long to secure this basic right? Hadn’t women “suffraged” enough? Ok, for that bad joke, my voting rights should be taken away…

Ashamedly for Uprising, this is your truth professa saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our history!