I'm glad NC got around to changing this one!

Here's the latest picture and email from my brother Lee who's obviously having fun going through a box of family things.

He wrote:

"Was thumbing through this old book: "Civil Government of North Carolina and the United States" copyright 1907, but obviously still using it when mama was in school. Did some "googling" to catch up on history. U.S. amendment gave women right to vote in 1920, but NC didn't ratify it until 1971."

In case you can't decipher the text, the part of the law that caught his eye on the left-hand page reads --

DISQUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING AND HOLDING OFFICE

280. As to Age and Sex -- The privilege of voting is confined to those who are deemed able to defend it. A woman cannot vote in North Carolina. She may, however, impress her views, sentiments, and interests upon those who make the laws and elect the officers. She may train children to love God and country; she may fix in their hearts the proper principles of truth, justice, and humanity; she may teach them to know and maintain their rights and liberties, and those who prevent justice to those who cannot help themselves...