I love, love, love this, and all of your writings! But this was the best, right to the very end - no pun intended - as we have all now been declared officially "equal" in NYS. As if we weren't before. Sigh.
Bet you never heard of Jeanette Rankin. But thanks to Tom Clavin you will now, as he yet again fills in a missing piece of history, and introduces us to a singular person. Rankin was elected to the U.S. Congress from Montana in 1916, three years before women got the vote nationally. A staunch social reformer and pacifist during her long life, she voted against U.S. involvement in every war from WWI to Vietnam. She once explained that as the first woman ever given the chance to take a stance against organized killing, she wasn't going to let the opportunity pass, and she wasn't going to sanction others being forced to participate. Well done, Tom. You profiled a true heroine.
I love, love, love this, and all of your writings! But this was the best, right to the very end - no pun intended - as we have all now been declared officially "equal" in NYS. As if we weren't before. Sigh.
We are still not officially equal at the federal level, though, even in 2024.
I thought this was going to be a column about Eve...
Thank you for highlighting a woman today!
Bet you never heard of Jeanette Rankin. But thanks to Tom Clavin you will now, as he yet again fills in a missing piece of history, and introduces us to a singular person. Rankin was elected to the U.S. Congress from Montana in 1916, three years before women got the vote nationally. A staunch social reformer and pacifist during her long life, she voted against U.S. involvement in every war from WWI to Vietnam. She once explained that as the first woman ever given the chance to take a stance against organized killing, she wasn't going to let the opportunity pass, and she wasn't going to sanction others being forced to participate. Well done, Tom. You profiled a true heroine.
Thank you.