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and that's all right

yeah that's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello everyone, welcome to Factually.

I'm Adam Conover and look, we've all been dealing this year with compounding societal

catastrophes to say the least it's been a lot and that's made it a little hard

to pay attention to a major milestone in American

history that's been coming up.

This would be blanketing the airwaves if not for everything else going on this year.

So let's talk about it right now. On August 18th, 1920, nearly a hundred years ago, the 19th amendment was ratified

and women across America were granted the right to vote.

To vote!

You know, this seems like a pretty fucking obvious thing for a society to do because, you know, about

half of all humans are women, even in America.

The sheer duh factor of this accomplishment, you know, the fact that we all take it for granted.

No one in America argues against it today as a right that women should have.

Well, that us taking it for granted can obscure just how radical and complex and long lasting the suffrage movement was.

It's one of the greatest movements in American history far and away.

We spent surprisingly little time thinking about it or

discussing it today.

And our image of that movement is really, really limited.

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