Day: February 10, 2020

The Children Are Spared, the Field Act Is Born

Polytechnic High School, Long Beach after earthquake. Building is partially destroyed.

The Children Are Spared, the Field Act Is Born

It’s 5:54 p.m. on Friday, March 10, 1933. A 6.4 magnitude earthquake sweeps throughout Southern California, concentrating much of its damage in Long Beach. Although…

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Men — Barely — Give Women the Vote

Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where women are reaching out to her. Printed below the cartoon is a poem by Alice Duer Miller.

Men — Barely — Give Women the Vote

Published by Greg Lucas

California’s men narrowly grant California’s women the right to vote on October 10, 1911. Approval of the constitutional amendment makes California the sixth state to…

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