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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“If we should swap a good library for a second-rate stump speech and not ask for boot, it would be thoroughly in tune with our hearts. For deep within each of us lies politics. It is our football, baseball, and tennis rolled into one. We enjoy it; we will hitch up and drive for miles in order to hear and applaud the vitriolic phrases of a candidate we have already reckoned we’ll vote against.”
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