March, March: How The Fight For Suffrage Still Lives On

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

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This week’s fastest developing story… is all about snail mail. That’s right. Some controversial new changes at the US Postal Service are causing mail delays and making some people worried about voting by mail this November. But now, the Postmaster General is hitting pause on those new changes until after the election. We’ll explain what happened and why some lawmakers are still concerned. And our big story of the week: it’s the 100 year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. And we spoke to a few grandmas about their first time exercising that right. But the fight for suffrage… didn’t end with that amendment. That’s because the 19th Amendment didn’t give all women the right to vote. We’ll break down how the suffrage movement from the 1900s still lives on today. Also: we’ll tell you about something you may have missed from this week’s Democratic National Convention that has climate activists speaking out. Hint: it’s a good lesson in always hitting “track changes.” If you want to read more on the Democratic Party Platform, you can check it out here. On this episode, you’ll hear from: Dr. Ida Jones, university archivist at Morgan State University Skimm’r Grandmothers: Florence Blatt, Arlene Krouner, and Ann German Let us know what questions you have about what’s going on in the news right now. Email us at audio@theskimm.com or call and leave us a voicemail at: 646-461-6370. You might hear your message on the show. If you want to add theSkimm to your daily routine, sign-up for our free newsletter the Daily Skimm. It’s everything you need to know to start your day, right in your inbox. Skimm'd by Alex Carr, Justine Davie, Marion Lozano, Julia Nutter, and Luke Vargas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The ladies appeared at the polls on election day by the hundreds of thousands.
0:04.2	We are clearly soldiers in pity,
0:07.2	cooks, and don't cless crusaders for women's evokes.
0:11.9	If it's Congress, it's going to suddenly roll over and give women the vote.
0:15.5	I thought you said she was bright.
0:17.0	We were suffering until it was over it.
0:20.4	Celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote
0:23.6	is definitely something worth toasting to.
0:26.9	It was on August 18th, 1920,
0:29.6	that the 19th Amendment was ratified to the United States Constitution.
0:34.9	But that amendment didn't give all women the right to vote.
0:38.6	And 1920 didn't end the fight for suffrage either.
0:42.0	So on today's show, we're going to talk about not just the anniversary,
0:46.1	but also the campaign for the right to vote that continued after the 19th Amendment was ratified,
0:51.3	and that still continues.
0:53.7	Then, a little later in the show, we'll also have an update on the Democratic Party's
0:57.7	big convention. And why that track changes feature is so important.
1:02.6	But before we do that, speaking of voting,
1:05.2	there's one thing that a lot of voters across the US are concerned about for this year's election.
1:10.5	Voting by mail.
1:18.3	Who would have thought that this week's rapidly developing story
1:21.6	would be about snail mail.
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