Prior to the 15th admendment only white males could vote.  This gave the
black male the vote.  The women had to wait until 1920 to get to vote.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jerry Fochtman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
| Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 4:13 PM
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: Re: MPE Sessions @ HPWorld
|
|
| At 04:29 PM 3/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
| >Jerry writes off-handedly:
| >
| >>                          Tuesday, March 30th
| >>
| >>            Today in 1867 - U.S purchases Alaska from Russia.
| >>                     1870 - 15th Amendment giving universal
| male suffrage
| >>                            was proclaimed.
| >
| >And what did males do in 1870 to deserve this?
|
| I wish I knew!  I didn't have anything here on the
| constitution so thought
| I'd look it up tonight when I got home. And I simply don't
| have a lot of time
| to search the Internet/Library of Congress today. I just copy
| these things
| off the
| calendar I have (can't you tell by the periodic spelling
| errors)....I don't
| try to interpret them too much... :-)
|
|
| /jf
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|                         Tuesday, March 30th
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|           Today in 1867 - U.S purchases Alaska from Russia.
|                    1870 - 15th Amendment giving universal
| male suffrage
|                           was proclaimed.
|
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