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June 2 – Eight mail bombs are sent to prominent figures as part of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings. June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
4 February 1919: Belarus — Women were granted the right to vote and stand in elections. [7] [8]10 February 1919: U.S. Senate defeats women's suffrage amendment. [9]10 February 1919: Paris, France — The Inter-Allied Women's Conference, also known as the Suffragist Conference of the Allied Countries and the United States, convened to compile a list of women's issues to present to the ...
Urban America was in turmoil throughout 1919. The huge number of returning veterans could not find work, something the Wilson administration had given little thought to. After the war, fear of subversion resumed in the context of the Red Scare, massive strikes in major industries (steel, meatpacking) and violent race riots.
1917–1919 – Silent Sentinels hold a vigil outside the White House gates in favor of women's suffrage, a nearly two–and–a–half year demonstration organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party; 1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism
1919: The Year That Changed America is a 2019 non-fiction children's book by American author Martin W. Sandler.The book details various events from 1919, including the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, "which led to building code, municipal oversight, and corporate liability precedents", the Nineteenth Amendment's passing, racial tensions, the Red Scare, changing labor conditions, and the ...
On 24 February, women attempting to put their children on a train out of town were beaten by police, shocking the nation. [23] [28] 18 April 1912 (United States) The National Guard was called out against striking West Virginia coal miners at the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek, West Virginia mines. [26] 7 July 1912 (United States)
Women, many of whom were married, took a variety of paid jobs in a multitude of vocational jobs, many of which were previously exclusive to men. The greatest wartime gain in female employment was in the manufacturing industry, where more than 2.5 million additional women represented an increase of 140 percent by 1944. [249]
It appeared in October 1919. [2] The novel is sometimes described as "self-published." [3] The novel received little attention from literary periodicals when it first appeared and was poorly understood; sales were slight. [4] New Outlook printed a short notice that concluded: "The study of this weak but agreeable man is subtle but far from ...