Fighters for women's voting rights began picketing Woodrow Wilson at White House today 1917:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Fighters for women's voting rights began picketing President Woodrow Wilson at White House today 1917:

Link to tweet

https://democrats.org/who-we-are/our-history/

19TH AMENDMENT: WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
Under the leadership of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. Constitution was amended to grant women the right to vote. In August of 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify women’s suffrage, and it became our nation’s 19th amendment.

Ummmm, no.

[niyad]

1. NO?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. "No" to the notion that Woodrow Wilson exhibited

anything even vaguely resembling “leadership” in the passage of the amendment. The protesters were hauled off to jail in Lorton, Virginia, and put on a bread and water diet.

[niyad]

3. Just wanted to make sure. The "Night of Terror" was on his watch.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. The organization that is attempting to

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claim leadership on Wilson’s behalf is a bunch of fabulists.

[niyad]

5. Thank you. I had not been aware of that.