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New #Womenshistorymonth thread. Was the #NineteenthAmendment only about women’s right to #vote?
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
That is precisely the question that politicians, activists, and legal authorities fought over in the years following the #NineteenthAmendment ‘s ratification. #whm2021 #suffrage #rights (2/15)
It’s week five in my Law in Rural America seminar for those reading along. This week we’re time traveling through the 20th century to take a look at rural education. 📚#RuralLaw #LegalHistory 1/
We’re starting this week in the early 20C with @TracyLSteffes’s “Solving the ‘Rural School Problem’: New State Aid, Standards, and Supervision of Local Schools, 1900-1933” jstor.org/stable/20462223 2/
Then I’ll take us forward in time by sharing my research on resistance to rural school consolidation legislation in Minnesota between 1967 and 1972 through the lens of an amazing rural school advocate, Margery Burns. 3/ 
First of all, contrary to the popular and scholarly myth that American borders were open (meaning anybody could enter the US) until the introduction of federal Chinese exclusion law in the 1880s, American borders were NEVER legally open even before that. 2/
Before the federal government started regulating immigration during the 1880s, the administration of immigration largely fell upon local and state governments. 3/
