Throughout March, we honor the incredible persistence and inspiring achievements of women in our nation’s history. We honor their confidence, fearlessness and grit, and then we go back to business as usual. More pointedly, we watch as our country’s good old boy system too often relegates women to their place – as second-class citizens.
We sound bitter, you think? No. Simply and plainly, we’re mad. Still. Thus we persist.
The Declaration of Independence, penned in 1776, read, “… all men are created equal.”
White male property owners could vote from the beginning, but it wasn’t until 1828 that all non-property-holding white men could vote.
In 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified and Black men gained the right to vote.