Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Newspapers in Scottsboro Case

Burmingham News
Burmingham Ages Herald

huntsville, Alabama
Lafayette, Alabama

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Be nice to people on your way up

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.

GI Underground Press

1969
Washington DC - First issue of OM The Servicemen’s Newsletter published.

http://www.sirnosir.com/timeline/chronology_GI_press.html
Movie "Sir No Sir" website also includes the chronology of GI underground press

Alice Paul Institute

http://www.alicepaul.org/alicepaul.htm

The Nineteenth Amendment

In 1917, in response to public outcry about the prison abuse of suffragists, President Wilson reversed his position and announced his support for a suffrage amendment, calling it a "war measure." In 1919, both the House and Senate passed the 19th Amendment and the battle for state ratification commenced. Three-fourths of the states were needed to ratify the amendment. The battle for ratification came down to the state of Tennessee in the summer of 1920; if a majority of the state legislature voted for the amendment, it would become law. The deciding vote was cast twenty-four year-old Harry Burn, the youngest member of the Tennessee assembly. Originally intending to vote “no,” Burn changed his vote after receiving a telegram from his mother asking him to support women’s suffrage. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment. Six days later, Secretary of State Colby certified the ratification, and, with the stroke of his pen, American women gained the right to vote after a seventy-two year battle. August 26th is now celebrated as Women's Equality Day in the United States.

http://www.sirnosir.com/timeline/chronology_GI_press.html
Movie "Sir No Sir" website also includes the chronology of GI underground press