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1/6 Today is the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the #19thAmendment 
. While many white women won the right to vote, for decades, many Black women could not vote on account of their race. See what the @BetterLifeLab is reading in commemoration of this day
. While many white women won the right to vote, for decades, many Black women could not vote on account of their race. See what the @BetterLifeLab is reading in commemoration of this day
2/6 Frances E. W. Harper - suffragist, orator, abolitionist, artist. Many haven't heard of her, even as they’re quick to recall her contemporaries, from Frederick Douglass to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. @ProfKori would like to change that—read our conversation! https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/blog/frances-ellen-watkins-harper-suffragist-and-advocate-universal-freedom/
3/6 Historian @marthasjones_ asks, "Did My Grandmother Vote?" She ventures into the archives to find out and shares her findings with us in the @nytimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/suffrage-segregation-voting-black-women-19th-amendment.html
4/6 More exhibits are acknowledging the "more nuanced history of the American women’s suffrage movement." The #19thAmendment granted white women the vote; however, Black women couldn't vote on account of barriers entrenched in racism, like tolls & tests. https://apnews.com/538407cb59a82f1efc6f50834ba097d8?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
granted white women the vote; however, Black women couldn't vote on account of barriers entrenched in racism, like tolls & tests. https://apnews.com/538407cb59a82f1efc6f50834ba097d8?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
5/6 @1a sat down with @MsPackyetti and @kate_c_lemay to discuss the #19thAmendment and the African American women activists who used their time and energy to ensure that all women had the right to vote. Listen here 
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/903237839/black-women-the-right-to-vote-and-the-19th-amendment
and the African American women activists who used their time and energy to ensure that all women had the right to vote. Listen here https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/903237839/black-women-the-right-to-vote-and-the-19th-amendment
6/6 Check out this @YWCAUSA report examining #WhyWomenVote. Based off a nationally representative survey, this report lays out how women voters feel about certain key issues.
According to the report, women are very enthusiastic to vote! #19thAmendment https://ywomenvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/YWomenVote-Report_FNL_12-11-19.pdf
According to the report, women are very enthusiastic to vote!
#19thAmendment https://ywomenvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/YWomenVote-Report_FNL_12-11-19.pdf
