Home for the Weekend: Women - Leona Hansberger recalls Women’s Suffrage Amendment

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Leona Hansberger, a life-long resident of Worthington, shares her remembrances on the passage of the Women’s Suffrage Amendment (19th Amendment of the United States Constitution).

Part of a Home for the Weekend program collecting shorter features that involve the subject of women.

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I was in high school van. I graduated near 1920 and I can remember very well. I don't I reach friend of my father's who's out the world. It's certainly going to come to an end because first of all I had passed 18th Amendment and now we had the 19th Amendment and that was just the blow. It was kind of brake United States were there other people around at that time who shared his opinion many of the older people in many of the older women felt the same way that Jay was an awful thing that the women were given the right to vote was that because they thought women should not be involved in politics. I think they have a feeling that women didn't quite understand politics and they were beyond the comprehension of most ordinary women.And then there were many of them who died in the Republicans Or democrats and sometimes their wife didn't share their views and here they were going to cancel each other's Bulldog. I remember when a neighbor of ours who said he was going to his wife in the bedroom. I don't think you did either high school at the time of ratification. What was your own personal reaction to that? We had had a class who taught by you and who was the superintendent and it was called political economy and the app to get into that class. So I chose the people that he wanted and we have had some discussions on this subject and then I was firmly believe that women should vote for Chevy 5.7 even some of the girls in our class didn't share my opinion.The way it was ratified Minnesota has become an issue with the legislators in this area as to how they voted on that. I'm sure it did. I'm sure there were many who felt that that that they had bolted correctly in thatcham. You don't happen to recall who the legislator was from this area at the time and and what his views might have been on that issue about that time. There was some mr. Shing's who was here from Worthington and then there was a sama sure we were members and them both of those were for me against did they take some flak because of their views on that from some women in the area all probably a little I think it was several women who are a little bit organized but really it was quite a quiet Affair read. I don't think it was any at all like women's lib.Picasso usually she went longer but my father said about them going to vote in the next election and she did a 1920 short in the fall of 1922. Remember whether or not your mother and father voted for the same candidate that election and my mother who had been listen to all this all these years and and said she was going to vote Republican and I don't understand actually voted for hiding or not. But anyway, she told my father she did and then you know, the depression came along and of course it did the women got to blame for that. First of all, which my father ridiculously funny because he figured that no women regardless how what they had done could possibly bring on a depression in a year's time but really, you know prices dropped so terribly for 1920 and 1921.That we actually had them or I'm lost in my father lost his several Farms there were people at that time then who tried to pin the blame on the women's vote. We had em in a.m. Editor of a globe who was very strongly influence and I don't think it ever came right out and said that the women were responsible for that but it's sort of being that way and I'll give think about this because you know after all this came at the same time and so forth, soDid you hear yourself grow up on a farm? Yes-no farm women have always had a lot of responsibility and a lot of work and stories from the old timers about women getting out when the men were gone and taking the team of oxen and plowing and everything else. What impact do you think the the women's suffrage amendment had for the farm woman? I think of the ever was at any woman who actually liberated it was a firm women and I think that's true today. They have to make the decisions. I think this money is as much theirs as her husband. I really don't believe it liberated them or anything of the kind because I think they were room. There were more or less Liberator beforehand supposed to Minnesota where women had the right of holding a home sad and so far. It's the same as a mandarin. What is your own opinion of the Equal Rights Amendment the greatest share the wealth of the world is controlled by women and if they can control the vote and they control the well by their old Earth they need is women want me to vote together. We can all women but we don't we don't we don't talk together and there's no there's no when they could band together and get perhaps is stronger political voice. They could never be in my lifetime. I'm sure that and I I would actually. Whatever coming to Century.

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