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Mar 16, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
Women have been fighting for equal rights since before 1834. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿 Here’s how we went from textile unions to the first woman & Afro-Indian US Vice President. #WomensHistoryMonth Image The Founding Fathers’ principles of “life, liberty, and property” didn’t apply to any women until 1900 when married women were finally able to access property and wages. Image
Jan 17, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
From the 1965 Voting Rights Act until now, we have seen great progress in ensuring the equal right to vote. At the same time, democracy is under threat. Learn more about how the U.S. can improve voting rights. ↓
Call the Senate to show your support: 1-833-312-1833 Local governments will no longer be able to implement discriminatory voting laws meant to block communities of color from voting.
Jan 14, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
When our country was founded in 1776, voting rights were in the hands of a few: white, wealthy, male landowners. We have come far since then, but not without struggle – and a ways to go. Tell the Senate to support voting rights this holiday weekend: 1-833-312-1833
Learn more ↓ Image Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched 5 days in AL from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery in a movement that captured the nation. That same year, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed The Voting Rights Act into law, ending legal discrimination towards Black voters. Image