The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. This historic centennial was designed to offers an unparalleled opportunity to commemorate a milestone of democracy and to explore its relevance to the issues of equal rights today. In many ways it lived up to the promise and in many ways it didn’t.
via 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment
And yet, we still have not had a female president.
Some black women were stanch supporters while others believed they were being left out.
Time proved the suspicions of those who believed they were being left out to be true.
People may not realized this but many women died for this amendment to become a law.
Of course, there were no public execution, but it doesn’t take a forensic expert to figure out what happened to some supporters.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/womens-suffrage-leaders-left-out-black-women
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A. White, an award winning former librarian, who is also a long time member of Romantic Time and Publisher's Weekly. A. White has been writing for over fifteen years. She took classes in creative writing in college, specializing in ancient myths and legends. and later at a local community center while living in Chicago. In college she won the national contest to verbally list every country in the world, it's capital and ingenious language. Her works are mainly horror, fantasy, extreme, and sci-fi as well as, as some may says, "the truly strange predicament and puzzling." Books that I've written are "Clash with the Immortals, and eleven others which are part of the "Unholy Pursuit saga,". She has been working on the Chronicles since 2007. She wished to complete them all before introducing them to public so the readers wouldn't have to for the continuation to be written.
The ideas of the book come from classic literature such as whose work greatly influence the world world such as Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and many more. The "Book of Enoch" influenced the usage of Azazael as a main character and love interest. I created the primary main character from the Chronicle of Saints. I wanted to show them as real flesh and blood with thoughts, desires and yearning as any human. Not as they are so often depicted. So I created one of my own to show her as a real human that everyone can relate to.
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