Tuesday marks 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment ratification 

Article by Lauren Takores, published in My Record Journal on August 17, 2020.

Full article is available here.

An excerpt is included below:

Dr. Amanda Calhoun, an adult and child psychiatry resident physician at Yale Child Study Center, is co-vice chair of the Diversity Council of the Yale Resident Fellow Senate. Calhoun spoke at the “Rally Against Hate” in Wallingford on Saturday.

“The emphasis is important that it’s white women who got the right to vote,” she said Monday, adding that it’s important not to contribute to “historical silencing” through white-centered interpretations of history.

“When I hear that it’s 100 years since women got the right to vote, it’s sort of like a slap in the face,” she said, “because it’s inaccurate. All women didn’t have the right to vote.”

While the Civil Rights Act of 1960 limited federal obstruction of the right to vote, poll taxes, literacy tests and other rules prevented Black citizens from voting in many areas until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.