Celebrating Voting

It's very fashionable to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of women getting the right to vote.  However, as Irene pointed out to me, the tale of voting rights is much more complicated than that ("100 year anniversary of wealthy, white, long time resident women getting the right to vote" just doesn't have the same ring!).  It's an interwoven tale of federal citizenship rights plus federal voting law plus (and this is key!) state specific legislation.

Piggy-backing on some research that Irene forwarded me, I picked out the most interesting dates to me and created this scaled timeline (pet peeve alert:  can't stand it when people do timelines with no scale - what's the point? That's just a chronological list!)

How come racism and sexism is so ingrained in modern society?  Stare at the chart for a while and see if you can find an answer...

sources:

https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/report/50-years-voting-rights-act-asian-american-perspective

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-02/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_the_United_States#Timeline