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As her divorce progressed and ultimately was granted Ruth lived with Peter. They had a very fulfilling sexual and romantic relationship - that is until Peter was called-back by the Army in May of 2018. He was killed in action on November 1, 1918 during the Oise-Aisne Campaign in Europe; he was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his bravery during the Campaign. The medal was given to Peter's sister since he and Ruth had not had the chance to formally wed before his deployment.
After Peter's death, combined with Mildred's adoption, Ruth had trouble dealing with life, despite her friend and co-suffragette Mary providing what assistance she could. Ruth worked a series of menial jobs until her death in 1935 from pneumonia.
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As a modern woman who has often taken the right to vote for granted without realizing the true hardships and misery that the women suffragettes endured, I was touched as much by great grandmother Mildred's transcriptions as by anything else in my life. Since I am blessed with substantial economic means after reading Mildred's transcriptions I established a scholarship in my great-great grandmother Ruth's name at the university I attended, to be awarded each year to the female student showing the most passion for equality. I hope that this provides some comfort to Ruth Tipton in her death, and recognizes the gratitude that I have for her sacrifices, wherever her soul may reside.
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lujon2019about 1 month agomerely because they sought a basic right that should have been given to them from the start of the democracy./
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Two points
1. we live in republic
2. voting rights were tied to land ownership, not citizenship
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A time line of voting
350,000 years ago humans begin and civilization such as it is begins
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010,000 years ago permeant settlement and agriculture become complacent to the point building and relics survive to modern era
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001,100 years ago the first instance of a wide spread democracy of 'common folk' is recorded in ancient Greece, some forms of democracy among nobility selecting a king from their ranks existed before this. Although it exists it was often lost, revived, and lost again
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000,240 years ago in the 1780s several "democracies" sprouted up that have lasted til today, based on land ownership, fun fact plenty of black people and women owned property and were permitted to vote
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000,163 years ago the civil war started, just prior to that time many states, starting in the north, began expanding the franchise and many northern residents were renters in factory towns, many other states followed suit given the attitude it was unfair to draft men to war if they didnt have the right to vote
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000,153 years ago, 15th amendment passes expanding voting to black men
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000,103 years ago, 19th amendment passes giving women the right to vote, women very quickly told black people to fuck off
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000,100 years ago, voting extended to the Indians with the Snyder Act, they didnt get get an amendment
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000,060 years ago, federal government finally outlaws racist democrat policy of disentrancing black people in the states they controlled
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000,052 years ago, voting age lowered to 18 (draft age)
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Now Im going to do some math here in a moment, but men who had the vote back in the days historians lie about only white land owners being allowed despite documented histories of women and minority land owners voting - they had to show up for the bucket brigade, they had to show up if a militia was called up, they would be drafted for war
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There was a corresponding responsibility attached to the right to vote - a responsibility women fought against and refused to take despite getting the right
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Seems sexist to me
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Now for the math
350,000 v 001,100 years ago the first instance of a wide spread democracy
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0.3% - 99.7% of human history elapsed before the invention of democracy
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350,000 v 000,240 years ago in the 1780s several "democracies" sprouted
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0.07% - 99.93% of human history elapsed before the invention of a stable democracy
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350,000 v 000,163 years ago democray is genrally avalible to all MAJORITY male citizens
0.05% - 99.95% of human history elapsed before the invention of a widespread stable democracy
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within 10 years the franchise was expanded to black men, but not Native Americans
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within 60 years of the the fanchine being expaned to the majority ethnic group men it was given to women, over the howling protest of the vast majority of women who didnt want it - thats right the will of the majority was ignored - not very democratic ;)
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FYI 60/350000 = 0.0001714, or 0.01714% imagine the whole of human history was a single day
24 hrs, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds *0.02%? = 15 seconds
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Basically women got the right to vote 15 seconds after men did, tell me again how oppressed you are?
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It took SOME land owning men 23 hours and 59 minutes to get the vote, and women got it 15 seconds later WITHOUT having to bare the burden of ANY of the responsibilities men have to shoulder for the vote
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No one ever talks about the men that were imprisoned and beaten for trying to expand the vote from land owners to men in general.
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One last fun fact, women in Utah had the vote in 1870, those repressive patriarchal Mormons gave women the right to vote 50 years before the US Congress, but their right to vote was stripped from them by the Edmuns-Tucker act, which the national suffrage movement supported - funny how liberals in the 1870 are just like liberal today what with the notions that the wrong kind of people voting are a threat to their democracy
Lickideesplitover 3 years agoThis is a FICTION site. The Century fox-pox shoulda been caught by Sweet Amos before posting ... shame! but the story, real or fiction, has the right flavor for life at the turn of the 20th Century. Especially for women!
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GeorgeAndersonover 3 years agoWe take so many things for granted, forgetting the sufferings of those who won them for themselves and for us, and forgetting just how narrow and hard-won those victories were. Thank you for this reminder.
GA
