By Lorraine Gates Schuyler
After the ratification of the 19th modification in 1920, thousands of southern ladies went to the polls for the 1st time. within the Weight in their Votes Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the results this had in states around the South. She indicates that from polling areas to the halls of country legislatures, girls altered the political panorama in methods either symbolic and substantial. Schuyler demanding situations well known scholarly opinion that girls didn't wield their ballots successfully within the Nineteen Twenties, arguing as a substitute that during nation and native politics, girls made the main in their votes.Schuyler explores get-out-the-vote campaigns staged through black and white ladies within the quarter and the reaction of white politicians to the unexpected growth of the citizens. regardless of the cultural expectancies of southern womanhood and the hindrances of ballot taxes, literacy assessments, and different suffrage regulations, southern ladies took benefit of their vote casting strength, Schuyler indicates. Black ladies mobilized to problem disfranchisement and grab their correct to vote. White ladies lobbied country legislators for coverage alterations and threatened their representatives with political defeat in the event that they did not heed women's coverage calls for. hence, at the same time southern Democrats remained in strength, the social welfare regulations and public spending priorities of southern states replaced within the Twenties by reason of girl suffrage.
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59 For more than two decades, white southerners had insisted that African Americans not vote at all. The disfranchisement statutes had been an essential component of a broader campaign to legally enforce the submissiveness of black southerners. By opening the door to greater African American political participation in the region, the Nineteenth Amendment threatened that system of white supremacy that ordered the Jim Crow South. Certainly, the number of African American women who succeeded in voting in southern elections during the 1920s was quite small.
61 One image speaks volumes to the changes on the southern political landscape in the 1920s. 62 Throughout the debates over woman suffrage, antisuffragists warned that a federal amendment would result in votes for both white and African American women. Though suffragists accurately countered with the argument that white women would out-vote black women, and that black women would be kept from the polls by the same methods that disfranchised their husbands, the Nineteenth Amendment did provide a very small number of African American women with an opportunity to participate in southern politics as citizens.
33 The changes that followed in the wake of woman suffrage did more than render previously male spaces gender-neutral. Masculine political spaces became feminized. ”34 While most southern polling places were not moved to “pink tea parlors” in the aftermath of the Nineteenth Amendment, they increasingly resembled feminized domestic spaces. ”35 The robust masculinity of polling places before 1920 was a reflection of women’s distance from political power. The feminization of those same spaces after 1920 was a corollary to women’s increasing political authority.