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This is moving. How quickly we forget.... If.... We... Ever.... Knew...
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers. They lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.
(Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
So, as you can see, we've come a long way. We are now the majority sex in registration. Women, get out and vote! Make your voices heard. Vote in the way you feel fit, but DO vote.
BTW, the color used in this article is called "chocolate." That should motivate you!
I had planned on submitting this later, but after reading Wayman's entreaty to women to vote... I am publishing it now. I urge you to go read his most recent post and leave your supportive comments. This one is on Sarah Palin. That should motivate some of you more than chocolate.
Check him out here..... Wayman's Article on Sarah
Also.... Substantiation of Wayman's Former Message
