Posts tagged women's rights
Well Done, Sister Suffragette
Well Done, Sister Suffragette

Did you know that Tennessee was the deciding factor in ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment? I’ve lived here my entire life, and I didn’t realize this until a few days ago. I’m a woman who started voting in Madison County elections in 2011, but I would not have had that privilege if I had been born before 1920. If I were a black woman, I would not have been able to vote in the South without threats to my life and racist voter suppression state laws until 1965.

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Olivia ChinJackson TN, Tennessee, Our Jackson Home: The Magazine, Vol. 5 Issue 1, women, Women's History Month, female, women's rights, voting rights, suffrage, Mary Poppins, Olivia Skelton, history, Nineteenth Amendment, politics, equality, Emmeline Pankhurst, activist, feminism, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Church Terrell, Memphis TN, Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, Black History Month, African American, slavery, black, Robert Church, Oberlin College, Washington D.C., National Association of Colored Women, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Sue Shelton White, protest, Henderson TN, Supreme Court, National Women's Party, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Gabrielle Harris, Wanda Stanfill, Jackson City Plaza, WRAP, RIFA
On: The Jackson Service League
On: The Jackson Service League

Each generation has a particular vantage point to view our city’s history and the path tread down by our collective stories. Lost in our own days, we sometimes forget that we are a part of a city and one community. Whether it’s a road away from racial hatred or a road that celebrates creatives, a community adopts a certain path tread by the people before them. The community saunters along until the moment when individuals and organizations rise up and insist on change, for better or worse.

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