Megan West(erby)

changetheratio:

Happy birthday to the 19th Amendement! You’re 90! On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed into law, giving women the right to vote. Gail Collins wrote about it earlier this month; today I mark it with the posting of “Sister Suffragette” from Mary Poppins. You could probably deconstruct that by pointing out that if Glynis Johns had been a more present mother then they wouldn’t have needed so many nannies, but let’s face it, anyone who knows that movie knows that “A British Bank” gives all the clues you need into that dysfunctional household. Actually, this is really the only thing that Glynis Johns gets to do in the whole movie, and it’s one of my favorites. (To be honest I cooled on Mary P. when she threatened to report Jane to the police for insisting they’d gone into the chalk drawings on the pavement. Not cool, Mary P.) Anyhow: This song rocks. It was about Britain but still - the sentiment is clearly universal: “Our daughters’ daughters will adore us, and they’ll sing in grateful chorus: ‘Well done! Sister Suffragette.’”

So: Happy 90th anniversary, voting American women! 

August 26, 1920: The Day the Suffrage Battle Was Won [About.com]

26 August 2010 ·