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90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment – women’s right to vote and participate in the political
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On February 14, 1920, with passage of the 19th amendment imminent, suffragists met to transform their movement into the League of Women Voters to help educate women to be responsible voters. On August 26, 1920, just days after Tennessee became the thirty-sixth (and last- needed) state to ratify the amendment, the Secretary of State signed the proclamation enacting the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.
This 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment provides an excellent opportunity to honor the amazing organizing efforts of the many thousands of women and supportive men who worked to secure the vote for women in the United States. Their story is a remarkable testimony to the unrelenting tenacity and spirit of women who were seen as powerless and yet achieved the largest single extension of citizenship rights in our nation’s history.
To read more on the League’s history in helping to secure the right to vote for women and equal rights.
Selling Our Children
In 1999, Fulton County Juvenile Court Judge Nina Hickson began to notice a steady stream of girls coming through her courtroom on charges related to prostitution. Dozens of children each month—age 14 on average, but some as young as 9 or 10—described being physically forced or psychologically manipulated into prostitution on Atlanta’s streets.
The children were runaways lured into relationships with savvy pimps who showered them with affection and then turned violent. They were teenagers sent to a street corner to “find dates” or sold out of hotel rooms to settle family debts. They met men online in chat rooms. They were girls, and sometimes boys, from notorious inner-city neighborhoods, or from the city’s expansive ring of suburbs. Or they were kids from Alabama or Arkansas, or rural Georgia, transported to the city by men who saw them as a source of easy cash. And, as a 2008 report by Emory University’s Barton Child Law and Policy Center would later confirm, the exploitation cuts across all racial and economic lines.
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Legs covered in skin-toned stockings, her skirt crisp to the knee, Patty Davis slips on the black heels she has shined for the day.
"Got to look good in the Lord's house," she says as she spritzes her neck with White Diamonds perfume and exits her black Lincoln Town Car.
Davis, 46, of Union City, Georgia, has attended African Methodist Episcopal churches since before she could crawl. She sits proudly in the pew every Sunday for service and is among the first to arrive for bible study each Wednesday.
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