Voting rights. It seems as though they’ve always been with us. They haven’t! It’s worth fighting for them every day. Slavery did not disappear the moment emancipation was declared. The same applies to voting rights. Just because they are enshrined in law does not mean that everyone in the world actually has the right to them in practice.
By 1911, “votes for women” had become, as one journalist noted, “the three small words which constitute the biggest question in the world today.” While galvanizing to many, such radical action was also divisive.