For the mystery book club that meets at Barnes and Noble every second Thursday in Lubbock, Texas, we recently read a book that touched on the woman's suffrage movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation. The book was Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/miriam-grace-monfredo/.
Among other things, the book addressed the woman's suffrage movement. Can you imagine? Women were not granted the right to vote, by the Constitution of the United States of America, until 1920, by the 19th Amendment http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=63.
If you read, as I have in the past, the atrocities suffered by the women who were campaigning for the right to vote, you will be appalled, sickened, and horrified. What horrifies me more is that women currently do not vote, because they do not think their vote is significant or important. What the suffragettes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette went through to secure for future generations of women the right to vote was horrific. So why women do not vote, for what ever reason, is a travesty, a breaking of faith with those who came before and suffered so we could vote.
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