Today is the anniversary of the passing into law of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920). It gave women the vote. So, how much progress have U.S women made since in being treated or regarded as equals and when were any major steps made ? [British women did not get full equality with men in voting until 1928; that was because the reform of 1917 gave them the vote only at age 30 in general; they so outnumbered men after the losses of males in the age group 21-30 in WW1 that this was meant to provide some balance]
Our first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament here was, naturally, American ! ( Nancy Astor in 1919; born in Virginia; not resident here until she was 26 )
You may already know this , but Blacks were given the right to vote in 1870...some 50 years before women were given the right to vote...1920...see the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
Reminds me of a posh London Club I once belonged to. Many such would not admit women onto the premises but this one , dangerously progressive (!), allowed them access to a lounge in the basement. The sign at the basement steps advertising this entrance read simply 'Entrance for Tradesmen and Ladies'. You see,to the club and their signwriter any man, even the working man clearing the drains or delivering the parcels,came before any woman, however high her fancied status!
So whatever rights the male American who was black did not have he sure was before a woman in some ways; he was a man and that was enough !
