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[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Women got the right to vote in 1920, but it wasn't until 1968 that minority women were allowed to vote, and 1990 when the Americans with disabilities act passed. Crazy to me how people can look past monumental changes like that.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, the south was unified under Jim Crow and the KKK, so I'll just leave it at that.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Don't ask don't tell ended in 2011. It started in 94, prior to that the military was actively hunting and discharging gay members.

A highschool in Georgia had their first integrated prom in fucking 2013.