In this morning’s online NYT there was an On This Day feature imbedded in the story I was reading about Google Talk beta. (More on that later.)
Today’s issue mentioned it was on this date in 1920 the Constitution was amended to allow women the privilege of voting.
Think about that. Women in this country of the brave and the free have only been allowed to vote for 85 years.
This means there are people alive today who were alive when women couldn’t vote nationally. I know Montana and perhaps a few other states allowed women to vote and run for local offices, such as the school board, but they couldn’t vote for congressman, senator or the president.
Only 85 years. To quote myself 40 years ago, “that blows my mind!” It was something I knew in general, but to have it displayed as an aniversary for today brought it the front of the line.
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