A group of Black suffragists, taken sometime between 1910 and 1920. *Credit: Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library*

Obtaining the vote was just one item on a long civil rights agenda.

When Congress ratified the 19th Amendment on August 18,1920, giving American women the right to vote, it reflected the culmination of generations’ worth of work by resolute suffragists of all races and backgrounds.

Historically, attention has focused on the efforts of white movement leaders like Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But they worked alongside many lesser-known suffragists, such as Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee and Nina Otero-Warren, who made crucial contributions to the cause—while also battling racism and discrimination.

For their part, “Black suffragists came to the suffrage movement from a different perspective,” said Earnestine Jenkins, who teaches Black history and culture at the University of Memphis. Their movement, she says, grew out of the broader struggle for basic human and civil rights during the oppressive Jim Crow era.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893)

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961)

Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)

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Source: history.com for the complete article with great images of them all and a detailed account of the lives of these 5 Women … There were so many more

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When the handwriting is right there on the wall to read and discuss … but they stay silent

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The GOP doesn’t understand GDP or the American Workforce!

Shame on Farmers, Ranchers, and other Industries who have a history of taking advantage of hiring documented, and certainly some are also undocumented workers. The proof was that insane number of 600,000 immigrants taken out of the workforce just recently. Why so many were taken out is was and continues to be bad enough, but knowing they were using immigrants to cover their mostly slim to no wage increases, health insurance, and all the things that any good-faith workforce should be getting!

When will CEOs, Big Corp, and others be reprimanded, regulated, and made to pay up? They should be fined for all the damage they caused the economy!

How many decades have they ruined the lives of so many with greed, selfishness, power, and supremacy that, unfortunately, ultimately impacts consumers!

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1935 – FDR signs the Social Security Act

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. Press photographers snapped pictures as FDR, flanked by ranking members of Congress, signed into law the historic act, which guaranteed an income for the unemployed and retirees. FDR commended Congress for what he considered to be a “patriotic” act.

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Roosevelt had taken the helm of the country in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, the nation’s worst economic crisis. The Social Security Act (SSA) was in keeping with his other “New Deal” programs, including the establishment of the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which attempted to hoist America out of the Great Depression by putting Americans back to work.

In his public statement that day, FDR expressed concern for “young people [who] have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age” as well as those who had employment but no job security. Although he acknowledged that “we can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life,” he hoped the act would prevent senior citizens from ending up impoverished.

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Under the Domestic Emoluments Clause

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aka Presidential Emoluments Clause

In Article II, Section 1, Clause 7, the President is prohibited from receiving “any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them” besides his fixed salary

The term emolument in this context is broad and can include any profit, gain, or advantage — not just direct payments, but also benefits such as jobs, contracts, or other forms of compensation from federal or state governments

Source: Congress.gov , Georgetown Law

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1952 ~ “Hound Dog” is recorded for the first time by Big Mama Thornton

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On this day in 1952, Big Mama Thornton and the Johnny Otis Band recorded “Hound Dog” and turned it into a smash hit on the R&B charts, where it stayed at #1 for seven weeks.

August 13, 1952, four years before Elvis Presley would make “Hound Dog” his longest running no. 1 hit, the song was recorded for the very first time by the rhythm-and-blues singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Los Angeles, California. Since Presley’s version ran 11 weeks at the top of the pop music charts, it’s often been mistakenly assumed to be his original.

Big Mama Thornton was a native of Montgomery, Alabama, who came of age on the R&B circuit in the 1940s after starting her professional career in 1941 at the age of 14. In 1951, she signed her first record contract with Peacock Records and was soon paired with another of its artists, bandleader Johnny Otis, who brought Thornton out to join his band in California.

It was there, in late 1952, that Otis asked two young songwriters on the Los Angeles music scene if they would write something, especially for Thornton. Those songwriters were Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, who would go on to have an enormous impact on R&B and early rock and roll through their work with groups like the Coasters and the Drifters. But hits like “Yakkity Yak,” “Charlie Brown,” “Stand By Me,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “Love Potion No. 9″ were still ahead of Lieber and Stoller when they did what Otis asked and came back to him with a 12-bar country blues tune called “Hound Dog.”

Source: history.com for the complete article