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"I did not raise my girl to be a voter"
Women's suffrage in the United States
Credit: Cartoon: Merle De Vore Johnson; Restoration:
Adam Cuerden
"I did not raise my girl to be a voter": A 1915
parody
from
Puck
of the
anti-World War I
protest song "
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
" with the context altered to
women's suffrage
. A conductor labeled "
political boss
" leads a lone female soloist surrounded by a male chorus with various labels including "procurer", "
child labor
employer", and "
sweat shop
owner". Arguments in favor of granting women the right to vote included the contention that female voters would support laws that reduced
prostitution
, labor abuses, and other perceived social evils. The fight for
women's suffrage in the United States
began in the 1830s, and concluded with the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
on
August 18
, 1920.
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