rentice-Hall, 1963Organized Crime . Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 1996 SoftKey International Inc. and its licensors.Parrish, Michael E., Anxious Decades. New York: WW Norton and Co., 1992.Prohibition. Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 1996 SoftKey International Inc. and its licensors.Severn, Bill. The End of the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition and Repeal. New York: Julian Messner, 1969The Nineteenth Amendment On August 18, 1920 neither the United States nor any State could deny any U.S. citizen the right to vote "on account of sex." (Constitution, 1987). Although the quest for equality was hard-fought, many of the women who worked for the vote were surprised they achieved it. (Ryan, 1983). The vote meant more to women than merely controlling money and jobs and equality--the vote meant political power. Like all political changes affecting the United States, the vote was preceded by political discussion, and there were many brilliant women who spoke eloquently for women's rights. For suffragists, the issue started with manufacturing. It moved white women out of the household into a world where they could earn more than $16-22 a month. (Ryan, 1983). Unfortunately, the consequence of moving out of domestic employment left these low paying jobs to black women, which was not the intent of the movement. However, for purposes of achieving the vote, this consequence was ignored for the time being. In fact, reports Ryan, the politicos of the women's suffrage movement at the turn of the century, for political reasons, "occasionally donned the ugly garb of racism and xenophobia," claiming themselves superior to blacks and immigrants. "These slogans were part of an arsenal of expedient devices suffragists used to achieve their goal." (Ryan, 1983). One of the main leaders of the movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton who wrote "The Solitude of Self" in 1892. (Stanton, 1892). She was one of the biggest proponents of "self-sovereignty" for women becau...
