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  • American Women Who Were Anti-Suffragettes

    10/22/2015 12:57:50 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    NPR ^ | OCTOBER 22, 2015 | Linton Weeks
    With the new movie about the British suffrage movement, Suffragette, scheduled to be released this week, recollections of protest and debate concerning a woman's right to vote in the U.S. are inevitable. As the 19th century ended and the 20th began, the American wave of women pushing for access to the ballot box gathered momentum. But it wasn't until the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920 that voting rights were guaranteed for all women. Hard as it is to imagine today, there were certain women — mostly forgotten — during that period of duress who did not...
  • Fonda Reprises A Famous Role At Peace Rally (Drudge "JANE FONDA: NOW")

    01/28/2007 5:29:30 AM PST · by Anti-Bubba182 · 36 replies · 952+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 1-28-07 | Linton Weeks
    For her next act, Jane Fonda has entered the war against the Iraq war. At the tail-end of yesterday's on-the-Mall rally, organized by United for Peace and Justice, Fonda stood onstage with the Capitol behind her and addressed the sun-drenched thousands. "I haven't spoken at an antiwar rally in 34 years," she said. But, "Silence is no longer an option." The first time Fonda, 69, spoke out for peace, the country was soul-deep in the Vietnam War. In the ensuing decades, as the nation has gone through a slew of changes, so has Fonda. As a young woman, the daughter...