Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of women’s suffrage. Over a century of fighting and on August 18 1920 women were finally granted the right to participate in the United States “democracy”. The Indigenous suffragist Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (5th picture) also known as Zitkala-Sa, a citizen of the Yankton Sioux Tribe reminded newly enfranchised white women that the fight was not over. Not all Native American women could vote. Not all Native people were considered citizens of the US and thus could not participate in matters that affected them. Not all Chinese women could vote and voting was very difficult for Black women. In 1848 The very first feminist convention took place in Seneca Falls New York. The idea of men and women being considered equal was completely absurd. To be a feminist was like being considered mentally insane. It’s wild to see the anti-suffrage posters. The last photo is of journalist and suffragist Ida B Wells-Barnett and her daughters Ida and Alfreda. The irony of our democracy. #democracynow #heroicwomen #womensliberation #senecafallsconvention https://www.instagram.com/p/CECS0uJhQ3h/?igshid=1h7o8n59081ub