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This Girl Can Vote!

via Atlanta History Center’s “Any Great Change” exhibit. / Atlanta History Center

via Atlanta History Center’s “Any Great Change” exhibit. / Atlanta History Center

If particular care and attention
is not paid to the ladies,
we are determined to foment a rebellion,
and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws
in which we have no voice or representation.
— Abigail Adams

This Girl Can! Make HERstory!

Our This Girl Can Vote! Collection was inspired by the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Thanks to the courage and determination of so many women over 70 years of protest and perseverance the Constitution was amended to ensure that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of sex. It would be another five decades before the vote was secured for ALL, and the fight continues, but…

This Girl Can Vote!…and She Will!

We believe that EVERY girl from the earliest age should be empowered with not only an understanding of #civics but also a strong belief in herself. Every girl should realize the role that she can play-no matter her age- in helping her community, and her country to create change and ensure that democracy thrives to fulfill the promise of equality for all.

This Girl Can! use her voice. She can learn about how government works and why voting matters. She can knock on doors, make phone calls, register voters, organize, rally, take action, support...at any level. This Girl Can! be confident. She can be inspired and inspiring. She can be a leader. This Girl Can! run! starting even in a school or community group election...and She can vote!

We ask justice, we ask equality,
we ask that all the civil and political rights
that belong to citizens of the United States,
be guaranteed to us
and our daughters forever.
— Susan B. Anthony, Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876
via Library of Congress

via Library of Congress

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
Women have suffered agony of soul which you can never comprehend, that you and
your daughters might inherit political freedom.
That vote has been costly. Prize it!
The vote is a power, a weapon of
offense and defense, a prayer.
Understand what it means and what it can do for your country. Use it intelligently, conscientiously, prayerfully.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.XIX Amendment, August 1920Just Government League of Maryland marching in Washington, D.C., 1920. / via Maryland…

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

XIX Amendment, August 1920

Just Government League of Maryland marching in Washington, D.C., 1920. / via Maryland Historical Society

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping
that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ‘ere long
— Mary Church Terrell
Journalist Ida B. Wells in the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. Black women ,many students from HBCUs such as Howard University, marched  in integrated sections  refusing to march separately.   Via NPR

Journalist Ida B. Wells in the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. Black women ,many students from HBCUs such as Howard University, marched in integrated sections refusing to march separately. Via NPR

People say, what is the sense of our small effort?
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time,
take one step at a time.
A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless.
There is too much work to do.
— Dorothy Day
via The New York Public Library

via The New York Public Library

The benefits accruing from this movement
for the equal rights of woman are not confined
or limited to woman only.
They will be shared by every effort to promote the progress and welfare of mankind every where and in all ages.
— Frederick Douglass, International Council of Women 1888
via Library of Congress

via Library of Congress

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back,
and get it right side up again!
— Sojourner Truth Address at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention | may 1851 
Black Women’s Sufrage Event via The Gotham Center for New York City History

Black Women’s Sufrage Event via The Gotham Center for New York City History

“With no sacredness of the ballot, there can be no sacredness of human life itself”
— Ida B. Wells
via Library of Congress

via Library of Congress

The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society,
and we must use it.
— John Lewis
Via PA Archive

Via PA Archive

The vote is won.
Seventy-two years the battle for this privilege
has been waged, but human affairs with
their eternal change move on without pause.
Progress is calling to you to make no pause. Act!
— Carrie Chapman Catt
Voting is the only way to ensure
that your concerns matter—Period.
So when you don’t vote, what you’re really doing
is letting someone else
take power over your own life.
— Michelle Obama