Suffrage has existed before my generations time, and (most likely) their parent's. This right has not been in jeopardy since the nineteenth amendment passed, and as a result, there has been no reason for it to be taken for anything other than granted.
Voting rights was a great place for the first-wave to begin. Had the demands, no matter how justified, been too forthcoming in the beginning, change may have taken much longer to occur. I believe this to be true because most of my life has taught me people in general are reluctant to conscious change -- even to things that have no relevance to them. And while not subtle, suffrage gave the moment the momentum it needed to further other items on its agenda.
Similar to the Civil Rights movement, tact was needed to express the importance of these changes. Radicals would not have been taken serious, and the cautious would not have gathered strength quickly to begin or galvanize others to their side.
Part of me does wonder, though, what some of the changes the leaders of the movement had planned next. Was there a point where they exhausted what they wanted to accomplish, and it would be up to those born with the freedoms they had gained to recognize new goals?
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