Welcome to Flag Steward's
Be a Stud Citizen - Reminders from Our Flag
for Wednesday, February 3, 2021
[ Feb. 2021 pic of Highlands Ranch Library and entrance to HR Vets Monument - by S. Sweeney ]
Be a Stud Citizen - Reminders from Our Flag
for Wednesday, February 3, 2021
[ Feb. 2021 pic of Highlands Ranch Library and entrance to HR Vets Monument - by S. Sweeney ]
[ 3 Ways for Students to Experience today's 'Be a Stud Citizen' - Reminders from Our Flag: ]
[ 1) Scroll down this page and read it to yourself or perform it aloud for your school / classroom. If reading the page to a classroom, skip any text in [ brackets ].
2) Play & listen to the 'BASC' podcast as you or your classroom follow along while scrolling down this page on a device or classroom projection
or, 3) Play & watch, by yourself or with your classrooom on a projector, the screen captured short video performance of this page ]
[ 1) Scroll down this page and read it to yourself or perform it aloud for your school / classroom. If reading the page to a classroom, skip any text in [ brackets ].
2) Play & listen to the 'BASC' podcast as you or your classroom follow along while scrolling down this page on a device or classroom projection
or, 3) Play & watch, by yourself or with your classrooom on a projector, the screen captured short video performance of this page ]
[ Note: Flag Steward's 'Be a Stud Citizen' podcasts are available on nearly all podcast platforms for you to listen and enjoy however you prefer. ]
[ Note: If you can't access or play videos from YouTube in your school, then GO / CLICK HERE to watch today's stories from Our Flag on Loom. ]
Where is Our Flag, the U.S. Flag, at half-staff today?
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Today's Historical Moment from Our Flag
... celebrates ratification (approval & becoming law) of the 15th Amendment ...
... celebrates ratification (approval & becoming law) of the 15th Amendment ...
On this date, February 3rd of 1870, the 15th Amendment, the last of 3 "Reconstruction Amendments" to the US Constitution, was ratified when Iowa's state congress approved it. At that time, Iowa was the 28th state, to approve the Amendment, out of the 37 states that made up the United States of America back in 1870. The 15th Amendment gave citizens of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)" the right to vote (as seen in the public domain picture above). The need to enable millions of former black slaves with the power to vote was realized during the 1868 national election of Ulysses S. Grant as President. Interestingly, it was the Republican Party back then that determined that black male voters were important to the future of their party winning elections.
Unfortunately, despite this national law, many southern states rejoining the Union and rewriting their state constitutions and laws created ways, with poll taxes and discriminating reading tests, to keep blacks from voting. So, folks like, Martin Luther King Jr., fought against the southern states' unfair voting practices and eventually passed the 24th Amendment, disallowing poll taxes, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to make it easier for blacks and other diverse populations to vote.
Unfortunately, despite this national law, many southern states rejoining the Union and rewriting their state constitutions and laws created ways, with poll taxes and discriminating reading tests, to keep blacks from voting. So, folks like, Martin Luther King Jr., fought against the southern states' unfair voting practices and eventually passed the 24th Amendment, disallowing poll taxes, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to make it easier for blacks and other diverse populations to vote.
[ the 15th Amendment - signed and certified by US Congress leaders = public domain image ]
Today's Inspirational Quote from Our Flag
“Fellow citizens!
How good that word sounds to-day.
It is the first time I have been privileged to say that in this hall.”
-Stated by African-American attorney (lawyer) Robert Morris ...
... in 1870, after the 15th Amendment was ratified, he felt so liberated and 'whole' as an American citizen, that he exclaimed himself as such in Fanueil Hall.
[ pic inside Fanueil Hall by S. Sweeney during a 2016 trip to Boston ]
“Fellow citizens!
How good that word sounds to-day.
It is the first time I have been privileged to say that in this hall.”
-Stated by African-American attorney (lawyer) Robert Morris ...
... in 1870, after the 15th Amendment was ratified, he felt so liberated and 'whole' as an American citizen, that he exclaimed himself as such in Fanueil Hall.
[ pic inside Fanueil Hall by S. Sweeney during a 2016 trip to Boston ]
Today's Fun from Our Flag
... is, appropriately, a joke about voting ...
Jack asks Diane: "Do you know the campaign slogan that State Rep. candidate Nichols has been repeating to voters?"
Diane told Jack: "Actually, no, I haven't heard it yet. Tell me her campaign slogan."
Jack then told Diane: "Candidate Nichols has been reinforcing with voters that 'It is time for CHANGE!'"
;) :) :)
Jack asks Diane: "Do you know the campaign slogan that State Rep. candidate Nichols has been repeating to voters?"
Diane told Jack: "Actually, no, I haven't heard it yet. Tell me her campaign slogan."
Jack then told Diane: "Candidate Nichols has been reinforcing with voters that 'It is time for CHANGE!'"
;) :) :)
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(Many prefer this text alert service because within the Flag Steward app we CANNOT effectively deliver state-targeted notifications)
This is a FREE service powered by Flag Steward's nonprofit