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"Not a Tinker's Damn": The Politics of Suffrage in the South Dakota Election of 1918

"Not a Tinker's Damn": The Politics of Suffrage in the South Dakota Election of 1918

Gerard W. Boychuk’s article, “‘Not a Tinker’s Damn’: The Politics of Suffrage in the South Dakota Election of 1918,” explores the arguments used to garner votes for the passage of Amendment E, the woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution. To get the backing of male voters, suffrage leaders connected women’s voting rights to alien disenfranchisement. By promoting themselves as good citizens when compared to immigrant men, they gained enough support to win equal voting rights in 1918.