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Centennial Twitter Collection
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2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment
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Rachel B. Tiven
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August 2019 to August 2020
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#DCStatehoodNow
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Have you heard about the time Frederick Douglass, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Belva Lockwood all occupied the Washington, D.C. Board of Elections? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">#DCStatehood Thread </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">It’s April 14, 1871. DC’s first city-wide election was less than a week away. For the first time, the consolidated city would get to choose its own legislature and someone to represent them in Congress. Headlines blared: “Our New Government”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The 15th Amendment was barely a year old. Leading up to the April election, the local paper anxiously tallied registered voters by race, reassuring readers that the white advantage was still strong.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Republicans were the favorites, but Washington was a southern city. Democrats were running on the platform “Opposed to Mixed Schools.”</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> (It was printed on the ballot.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Women wanted in.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">That January, Victoria Woodhull had challenged suffragists to try and register and vote, then sue and go to prison if needed to exercise their full citizenship under the 14th Amendment. She called this strategy “the New Departure.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Local women formed the DC Women’s Franchise Association and met for months - 19 meetings! - to concoct a plan to vote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">They took action that Friday in April, one of the last days to register. At 2:15, “the advance guard” arrived at City Hall. Dr. Mary Walker and Belva Lockwood bought bouquets for the registrars. Frederick Douglass arrived soon after, to lend support.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Stop to picture the scene. It is shortly after the Civil War. Frederick Douglass was one of the most famous men in America, and a huge presence in DC. Dr Walker was also a well-known public figure: a Civil War hero and a genderbending rebel. She was unmistakable. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Belva Lockwood was not yet famous for demanding to practice law, lobbying Congress for the right to do so, arguing cases before the Supreme Court, and running for President. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">In 1871 Lockwood was a suffrage leader, a 40-year-old w/a toddler, and a law student. Her husband Ezekiel came with her to register. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">By 4 o’clock a large crowd of women had gathered. Sara Andrews Spencer, whose name would ultimately grace the lawsuit they intended to bring, was the ringleader.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> Editor and lawyer Mary Ann Shadd Cary was there—white women may not have recognized her, but Frederick Douglass respected her enormously.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The group approached the man in charge, John S. Crocker. He was African American, one of two Black men on the 7-member Board of Registration. “The board is obliged to deprive itself of the agreeable duty of complying with your request,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Between the would-be voters and the husbands and lawyers accompanying them, there were at least 100 people crowded around inside City Hall. ⬇️ Crocker apologetically tried to encourage the women to give up and go home.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Not a chance. The women insisted on being treated like ordinary registrants. After some fussing, each woman registered at the proper desk for her district, swore out an affidavit with her name, her residence, and that she wished to register.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dr. Walker couldn’t resist a speech: “Gentlemen...So long as you tax women, and deprive them of the franchise, you but make yourselves tyrants. You imprison women for crimes you have forbidden women to legislate upon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">“Either do not hold women responsible for any crimes, do not tax their property...or give woman her rights as a human being.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">At least 68 women tried to register that day. The group had prepared a petition in advance. Lockwood is on that list, but Shadd Cary and Dr Walker aren’t. Shadd Cary may have decided to join at the last minute. Perhaps Walker wanted to register in NY, where she later ran for office.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">But they were definitely there. Shadd Cary wrote an essay about the day, called “A First Vote, Almost.” At least two other Black women sought to register: Amanda Wall and Mary Anderson. As was common then, they are listed on the petition with “col’d” after their names.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">One white woman who registered was fired from her job. A federal civil servant was threatened with dismissal. Some newspapers suggested the women’s husbands should divorce them, but there are no reports of splits.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Five days later the group met at Sara Spencer’s Spencerian Business College to discuss what to do the next morning, Election Day. Their denied registrations were enough to sue the Board of Registration, but to sue the Board of Elections they needed to try and actually vote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Elsewhere in the city, the Board of Elections was having its own meeting that night. “They knew that they would be sued if they rejected their ballots, and they felt that the City Government would sue them if they accepted them.”</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">On the morning of April 20, 1871, women went to the polls all over the city. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Each woman insisted on having the pollworker search the rolls for her name. Not being found, she handed over a prepared affidavit: I am a resident of the District; a legally qualified voter under the Constitution; I sought to register and was refused. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Spoilers: they lost their lawsuit. And DC’s partial self-rule lasted three years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As it happens, one of the only places women COULD vote then was Wyoming—a smaller population than DC, then and now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">150 years later, Wyoming has 2 Senators; DC 0.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">#19thamendment #DCStatehoodNow </span></p>
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Daily Suffragist
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1358989104227241991" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread</a>
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February 9, 2021
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Centennial Twitter Collection
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2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment
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Rachel B. Tiven
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Sometimes your heroes really disappoint. <br /><br />I’m not talking about Stanton or Anthony or Alice Paul. I’m talking about Ray Frank. <br /><br />Frank was the first Jewish woman to preach from a pulpit in the US - before a crowd of 1,000 people. Thread. <br /><br />The story is that she arrived in Spokane WA on the eve of Rosh Hashana 1890 to find a tiny Jewish community so fractious that no service was planned. She said she’d give the sermon if a minyan - surely of men - could be found. Her offer was announced in that evening's paper... and a crowd gathered. @<a href="https://twitter.com/umanskyellen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UmanskyEllen</a> says she preached that night, the next day and on Yom Kippur, launching a proto-rabbinic career. Though never ordained, she created congregations throughout the west. She was offered a job leading a congregation in Chicago, which she declined. <br /><br />Frank was there in 1893 at the founding of @<a href="https://twitter.com/NCJW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NCJW</a>👇She delivered a formal address on Women in the Synagogue at the Jewish Women’s Congress. <br /><br />But she opposed women’s suffrage. <br /><br />Her speech “The Jewish Woman and Suffrage†was . . . against. <br /><br />Though herself unmarried and kid-free, she argued that Jewish women should focus on their domestic lives. <br /><br />In an 1895 newspaper interview, Frank said “I am not a suffragist because I do not believe that a woman can properly fulfill her home duties and be out in the world, too.â€<br /><br />Not only did she eschew voting for women; she would gladly restrict the vote to select men. In the same interview she said the right to vote should be “granted strictly according to the intelligence and capacity of the individual for government.†<br /><br />Ray Frank married at age 40 and retired from public life. Her husband was an economics professor. They settled in Illinois and for the next 40 years she volunteered with local groups, including her synagogue and eventually the League of Women Voters. #Suffrage100Â
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"Rabbi" Ray Frank
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09/04/2020
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Centennial Twitter Collection
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2020 Centennial of Women's Suffrage Amendment
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Rachel B. Tiven
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Twitter.com
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August 2019 to August 2020
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English
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Daily Suffragist
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DailySuffragist/status/1179600725829148673" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Original thread.</a>
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Washington becomes a separate territory from Oregon in 1853. At the first meeting of its independent legislature, a man named Arthur Denny proposes “to allow all white females over the age of 18 years to vote.” The bill fails 9-8. #StateOfTheWeek <a href="https://twitter.com/HistoryLink" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@HistoryLink</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HistoryMuseum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@HistoryMuseum</a><br /><br />Edmond Meany, an early state historian, noted that at least one of the naysayers was married to a Native American woman, and the bill might have passed if Native wives of white men had been included. Native Americans were not otherwise considered citizens and could not vote. <br /><br />What motivated Arthur Denny to make the 1854 proposal? He was a wealthy founder of Seattle, a conservative Christian, a teetotaler - not an obvious supporter of sex equality. Did the other men ask him to include Native women and he refused? Or...? /Fin
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Washington could've been first
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02/10/2019
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Native rights
State Spotlight
Washington