April Young Bennett's Blog
March 8, 2022
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! #IWD2022 #EachforEqual #GenerationEquality
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.” -Alice Paul Happy International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is celebrated every March 8th. It is a global day...
February 25, 2021
“I am going to stay here and stand the fire.” -Sojourner Truth, circa 1843 #BlackHistoryMonth
“If the Lord comes and burns – as you say he will – I am not going away. I am going to stay here and stand the fire like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.” -Sojourner...
February 18, 2021
February 17, 2021
Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment on February 21, 1952.
The 19th had become law in 1920.
February 16, 2021
February 14, 2021
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. …Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” -Frederick Douglass, 1857
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without...
February 11, 2021
“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapped in a napkin and buried in the earth.” -Angelina Grimké, 1836
“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapped in a napkin and buried in the earth. It is the duty of all, as far as they can, to improve their...
February 10, 2021
“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony, 1896
“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony, February...
February 9, 2021
Georgia ratified the 19th Amendment on February 20, 1970.
The 19th had become law in 1920.
February 8, 2021
Women of Utah Territory voted in their first election on Valentine’s Day, 1870.
It was the first time American women voted since New Jersey women lost the right in 1807. Wyoming women also had the right to vote, but had not held an election yet since women...
