That was then…
Pro-Voting Female Demonstrators
Two smiling women stand outdoors and hold signs reading ‘Vote Baby Vote’ and ‘Voting is People Power,’ c. 1970. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett /Getty Images)
Suffrage March
Full-length image of a group of women and children marching with U.S. flags and banners for the right of women to vote, New York City, circa 1912. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Suffragette Protestor
An American suffragette with an umbrella stands next to a baby carriage and wears a sign proclaiming ‘Women! Use your vote,’ circa 1920. (Photo by APA/Getty Images)
Cheering For Alice Paul
As women stand and cheer, American suffragist Alice Paul (1885 – 1977) stands on a balcony at the National Women’s Party headquarters and unfurls a banner in celebration of the state of Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Ammendment, which guarenteed women the right to vote, Washington DC, August 13, 1920. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)
Franklin D Roosevelt
9th November 1932: Presidential candidate Franklin D Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) casts a ballot in a booth at a polling station while flanked by his wife, Eleanor, and their son, Elliot, Hyde Park, New York. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
People paying poll taxes
(Photo by Ed Clark//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Election Buttons
Corky Berwster, Miss Empire State, wearing a selection of buttons depicting election candidates, 22nd September 1950. She claims that wearing the buttons stimulates voting. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
African American Voters
African Americans vote for the first time in Charleston, South Carolina, during the US presidential election, 2nd November 1948. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Harlem Voters
People in New York’s Harlem district vote in the US presidential election, 4th November 1952. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Image
Civil Rights March
March 1965: Civil rights campaigner Dr Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) with his wife Coretta Scott King, at a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)
Voting Rights March
March 1965: Participants in a black voting rights march in Alabama. Dr Martin Luther King led the march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)
