As ballots begin to hit mailboxes in Stanislaus County, the county Commission for Women and the local League of Women Voters welcomed a restored 1918 Saxon Flyer into Modesto to re-create a 1916 suffragette ride that promoted women’s right to vote.
The reproduced trip now promotes the ratification of the 28th Amendment, known as the Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment would codify in the Constitution women’s equal protection under the law. It was originally introduced in 1923, three years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
The Modesto stop on Wednesday was significant because the two women who made the historic drive, Alice Burke and Nell Richardson, visited the city back then and spent a night at the Modesto Hotel…