How to Celebrate a Complicated Win for Women

Suffragists in Greenwich Village in New York, circa 1912.
"There’s a historical haze confounding plans to observe the coming 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. It descends, first, in definitions: 'That’s the one that guaranteed a right to vote to all American women, right?' Not exactly. The 'women’s suffrage' amendment, like the 15th Amendment before it, which sought to protect the political rights of former slaves, guaranteed nothing. It simply told states that being female could no longer be a reason to bar citizens from voting. To African-American women living in states with systems in place to block African-American men from voting, the amendment provided neither clarity nor power. Haze also makes it difficult to see what merits celebration. ..."
NY Times
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