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I do not even know why there was even a law saying women should not be allowed to vote, everyone should be allowed to vote and make a change.  Saying that women belong in the kitchen and won’t have time for to partake in political activities is very wrong. Everyone should be giving the same chance to do what they want to do. It’s very ridiculous that it took one hundred years to finally allow women to vote. The women before allowed to vote always wanted to join their husbands and had to watch them leave and make decisions concerning the government alone. Imagine a person ruling and you had no say over it or staying in a community and not being able to join others to make change. It can be frustrating watching things turn upside down. Women who were doing great where being told to be silent because they could not handle women being in the spotlight. Women were treated badly and discriminated; it still happens today but back then when it was happening, they were not allowed to do anything about it. Change would not have happened if some were not brave enough and cared what men thought about them, they are the reason for making a big step and allowing progress to happen. Mary Lyon who founded the first college in Massachusetts and others followed to conventions and groups being opened and Harriet Tubman who saved so many people. There are many other ways women have gone over the top, yet they are still told to stay home and take care of the children or clean. It continues as women are writing speeches, articles and can publish them. They were finally given good condoms and population of children reduced.            

1920 August women were finally allowed to vote. Ida B. Well, lost her parents at a young age, she went to school and changed things for good by helping to fight for women’s rights and black people, she was very popular in the time where there was too much violence and hatred. She was brought into slavery but freed by emancipation. Women from all over traveled to Washington DC to participate in the march, African Americans were allowed to participate but were told to stay at the back. Ida B. Well did not want hat happening and she decided to change that. She was a speaker and always wanted change for good. Anna Julia Cooper was a slave, she graduated college, became a principal later. Today we see black woman as vice presidents, principals, doctors, and many more because of changes made back then. Even though there are times when there is still discrimination it still won’t stop women from being the best and changing the future for other women. Girls can grow up and not be afraid of being the president or vice president, they won’t be arid of working in a medical department because they are black, they know they worked hard for it so they will get it. Fear can prevent you from moving forward and that is why we must fight it and make change. We should speak out and let others know that women deserve much. 

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