August252010
THEN & NOW: 90 Years Ago, Women Gained the Right to Vote »
“Female voters would also pose practical difficulties, described bluntly by a Mississippi man: ‘We are not afraid to maul a black man over the head if he dares to vote, but we can’t treat women, even black women, that way. No, we’ll allow no woman suffrage.’”
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