08-27-2008, 09:50 AM
I celebrate this with great pride every year. My great-grandmother Sarah Martha Salisbury (1873-1962) was a Suffragette and regularly picketed on the Courthouse Square in Stephenville, Texas from 1899 until the Amendment passed in 1920. She and her friends got some verbal abuse, but nobody messed with them physically because they could all shoot and hold their own in a fight.
Her husband Thomas Salisbury, a rancher, supported her politics and her career as an early saleswoman and distributor of movie cameras, projectors, and film. She would drive a Model T up into the Indian Reservations in Oklahoma where she sold the Native Americans the equipment to record their dances and processions. It was my privilege to know and love her the first twelve years of my life. Her daughter and my grandmother, Mattie Salisbury Stephens (1898-1994) fought for racial equality in the 1960's and passed legislation as a County Commissioner integrating all county recreational facilities.
Is it any wonder I have always supported women's rights?
Cheers to the strong and free women,
Jerry
Her husband Thomas Salisbury, a rancher, supported her politics and her career as an early saleswoman and distributor of movie cameras, projectors, and film. She would drive a Model T up into the Indian Reservations in Oklahoma where she sold the Native Americans the equipment to record their dances and processions. It was my privilege to know and love her the first twelve years of my life. Her daughter and my grandmother, Mattie Salisbury Stephens (1898-1994) fought for racial equality in the 1960's and passed legislation as a County Commissioner integrating all county recreational facilities.
Is it any wonder I have always supported women's rights?
Cheers to the strong and free women,
Jerry