THE PETTICOAT REBELLION OF 1916
WOMEN GAIN RIGHT TO VOTE, SUCCEED IN OVERTHROWING GOVERNMENT
Or something like that, might have been Newspaper Headlines of the day.
The real story is that on December 5th, 1916, the polls opened at 8:00am in the small town of Umatilla, Oregon, for a municipal election. And there was not a woman in sight.
Until.
At 2pm, the women showed up in droves and with write-in ballots, they proceeded to elect an all-woman council: a coup d'etat, of sorts.
The story is at:
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-petticoat-rebellion-of-1916/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/63262/laura-starcher-and-petticoat-revolution-1916
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:18AM
It's a slow news day. The submission had been sitting in the queue for a while and at least one user thought it was worth going through the time to put together.
Feel free to submit some stories that are better quality and editors won't need to go with stories like this.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:03AM
It's not a slow news day post, it's the 100 year anniversary of the event described.
December 5th, 1916.
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