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usnatarchives: “ On June 4, 1919, Congress passed a joint resolution proposing a 19th Amendment to the Constitution that prohibited states from denying the vote on the basis of sex. Suffragists’ fight for that long-sought amendment was not quite...
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On June 4, 1919, Congress passed a joint resolution proposing a 19th Amendment to the Constitution that prohibited states from denying the vote on the basis of sex.  

Suffragists’ fight for that long-sought amendment was not quite over, however. To become part of the Constitution, the amendment had to be ratified by legislators in three-fourths of the 48 states, a grueling process completed 14 months later, when Tennessee voted in favor on August 18, 1920.

On August 26, 1920, the U.S. Secretary of State certified that the 19th Amendment had obtained the necessary ratifications to become part of the Constitution. 

This landmark moment in American history had not been achieved easily. It took three generations of relentless political pressure to win women a constitutional guarantee of equal voting rights with men in their states.

Learn more in our new exhibit “Rightfully Hers.” 

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New Zealand PM Ardern Urges Her Nation To Make Gunman ‘Nameless’

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in her first speech to her nation’s Parliament after last week’s terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, said the gunman should be denied the publicity he was seeking.

“That’s why you will never hear me mention his name,” said Ardern. “He is a terrorist, he is a criminal, he is an extremist. But he will, when I speak, be nameless.”

The alleged shooter had written a 74-page screed promoting his white supremacist views and had livestreamed his attack on the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch.

“He may have sought notoriety, but we in New Zealand will give him nothing. Not even his name,” she said.

Ardern said that that the gunman is an Australian citizen facing one count of murder. She said that other charges will follow, adding, “The families of the fallen will have justice.”

The prime minister also said her government “will look at the role social media played” in the publicizing the attacks.

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Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn't Want It?

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.
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Plastics never really go away and the world is running out of places to store our unnecessary garbage. How have you started reducing your use of single-use plastics? ♻️

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We’ve Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation

Searching for a teen girl who was once internet famous for her coding skills, a former fan uncovers a story of harassment.
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It wasn’t the graphics, or the jokes, or the N*Sync lyrics people had a problem with. It was that view counter, at the bottom of her home page. That view counter was into the hundreds of thousands, and that made some people very, very angry.

It’s an interesting reminder of how small the internet was in the late 90s. That this middle school girl could reach so many people by simply understanding how to make a website look good is remarkable. Her website truly didn’t have anything spectacular or unique or even that interesting on offer. Her popularity was based almost solely on her design abilities, and that is damn impressive. She was at the forefront of a revolution none of us were even aware was happening, and she was internet famousbecause of it. “I started it a long time ago, when the Internet was like slowly becoming popular, and webpages were like…whoa,” she wrote on her FAQ page. “Heheh so I think my page was like ‘extraordinary’ then, and it got people kinda hooked on it…now its just like any other webpage, but people come to it anyways.”

People came, in droves, and they signed her guestbook, and in their messages they berated Sara for her popularity. She wrote in her diary about the people who were harassing her about her extraordinarily high page views. She lamented (half-heartedly) that she wished she’d never added a view counter. She defended her popularity, and then down-played it, and then defended it again. She angrily, reluctantly, offered advice to other webmasters on getting views for their own pages: sign other people’s guestbooks, update often.

And then, the next entry, the mea culpa. The apologies for getting angry, for writing “all that stuff.”

If the internet is an archive of the things we make then it’s also an archive of the abuse we endure there, and our apologies for feeling outraged.

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‘She’d been driven from the internet, and into the darkness, under the surface, she vanished.’

This is a really great piece. As someone who’s received her share of internet hatred, and never really been able to get over it or away from it, I’m so happy about Jami, and all I can do is wish the very best for every Sara. 

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