On this day in 1913, Suffragettes marched on the capitol in Washington DC, demanding the right to vote. At the time the democrat party officials were the most vocal opponents for suffrage. The republican party, of course, was highly supportive of equal rights for women, just as they had been the driving force behind the anti-slavery movement of 1861-1865. Democrats opposed this civil rights issue too.
This reminded me: the very first Post Scripts article I ever read was one from OneVike, titled “Women’s Right to Vote, the Beginning of the End for America?”
It’s gone now, but it garnered more traffic to this site than any article I’ve seen since.
The article certainly wasn’t as celebratory regarding the nineteenth amendment as this one is.
And, of course, the parties of 1913 are not the parties of today.
I love it when the democrat women show up in white to protest Trump when he speaks before congress. They show their ignorance about our history and that it was republican women who fought for the right to vote, supported by republican men in congress and their own party that tried to keep them from being equal.