The Vote
“New York City, early November, 1871… Victoria and Tennessee registered to vote… decid to set an example… surprised by how little opposition they met; their names were eagerly recorded. Four days later, on election day, and a group of women gathered… before heading out en masse to put equality of citizenship to the test. The Herald later reported that, ‘the irresistible Tennie read the… fourteenth and fifteenth amendments… The assembly thus satisfied themselves that the law was on their side, and confident in their right, sallied forth and swept down on the astonished inspectors,’” only to be denied the right to cast their ballots.
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“... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman’s vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.”
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980)
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