Posts Tagged voting rights

By Alexandra Brodsky • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

According to the SPLC, every Alabama county where blacks make up more than 75% of the population is having its DMV closed–in the midst of restrictive new voter ID laws that require state IDs which are only dispensed at such facilities.

According to the SPLC, every Alabama county where blacks make up more than 75% of the population is having its DMV closed–in the midst of restrictive new voter ID laws that require state IDs which ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Happy Women’s Equality Day!

Women’s Equality Day was designated in 1971 to commemorate the day the 19th amendment was ratified. Check it out below. You’d never guess the decades of struggle–against absurd fears of “petticoat rule” and patronizing warnings about the “burden of politics”–it took to win the right encapsulated in this short document.

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Women’s Equality Day was designated in 1971 to commemorate the day the 19th amendment was ratified. Check it out below. You’d never guess the decades of struggle–against absurd fears of “petticoat rule” and patronizing ...