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Imagine its Election Day, 1872.

You take a deep breath as you walk into a cigar store near your home in Washington, D.C.

You're a woman in your 40s, and you want access to the vote for all Americans, including women.

You've been going to suffrage meetings for a few years now, but you've never done anything like this.

Today, the cigar store is a polling place, and you're here

to cast a ballot for the first time in your life. Half a dozen men are standing in line to vote.

They shoot you confused looks as you step in to join them. Morning, gentlemen. You straighten your

bonnet and throw your shoulders back, trying to shake off the feeling that you don't belong.

As your turn comes, you approach the official sitting behind a long table at the back of the room.

Hello, I'd like a ballot, please.

The poll worker raises his eyebrows and smirks.

You would like a ballot? Is this some kind of joke?

Not at all, sir.

I have every right to vote in this election.

Says who?

It's black men who can vote now.

I don't remember them giving the vote to black ladies.

The 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States

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