It's International Women's Day

[baymule]

What about poll tax? It cost 50 cents to vote, so poor people didn't vote. It was a stinker move by some states in the South, after the Fifteenth Amendment gave the right to vote to all races. The poll tax, coupled with literacy tests, kept many African Americans, Native Americans and poor whites from voting. Sad to say, Texas had a poll tax until 1966 along with several other states.

 

[baymule]

Thanks for the birthday wishes for my mom. She definitely is not a bay mare.....she and I are nothing alike. She is city all the way, I am animals and dirt.

 

[so lucky]

How ironic that Native Americans weren't considered American enough to vote!

 

[digitS']

It may have been at the same time as the photograph in the 1st post. It was a women's suffrage parade in the same year, 1913. This month:

Those women are on horseback!

Steve

 

[digitS']

It is neither International Women's Day nor @baymule 's mother's birthday yet but I just thought you might like to know where your grandmothers could vote, 100 years ago:


You may have to click that to see ...

Steve