What is Revolution?
Revolution is a forcible over throw of a Government or social order of a new system. In other words it means change.

Over the past few years Bahamian women could not vote. In The Bahamian society persons looked at Bahamian women more like “housewives”. It was not easy being turned down because of your gender. I can’t imagine what the women went through. This meant the women task were to cook, clean, take care of the children and do everything their husband their husband has told them to do. The opinion and the voices of the women did not matter. Mary Ingraham the wife of the late Rufus Ingraham who was a member of the house of assembly for the Crooked Island and Acklins District. Mrs. Ingraham decided to start a movement along with Ugenia Lockhart and J.K. Symonette. The women were working together for years, trying to get more women to be apart of the Women Suffrage Movement. Members of this movement were: Mrs. Mary Ingraham, Mabel Walker, Georgianna Symonette, Doris Johnson, Ugenia Lockhart, Althea Mortimer and Muriel Eneas. The main purpose of this movement is to detach all racial discrimination, inequality and gender towards Bahamian women. Dr. Doris Johnson was highly educated and attended school abroad. She decided to join the women suffrage but she was not here during the beginning of the movement.

Dr. Johnson carried around a petition and came up to 9,500 signatures. It wasn’t easy getting signatures from people who were high officials. She had to push harder and persuade persons to sign. The signatures were obtained from Saint Hilda’s Chapters, Curfew Lodge and Star of the East Lodge of Samaritans. Doris Johnson suggested to address the assembly before the petition was read. Sir Roland Symonette brought the Magistrate’s Court, vacates the court room and brought members of the house of assembly to listen to the Bahamian women. This is the only part Doris played as I mentioned before. When it was time to vote whether the women should vote or not no member of the PLP government and even the Prime Minister didn’t even bother to vote for the women’s right. Instead all of the members walked out. Women and along the women suffrage movement were outside protesting waving placards with signs such as: NO NATION CAN RISE ANY HIGHER THAN IT’S WOMANHOOD”. This statement clearly means without women in the society how can the country be a better place? How can there be a country that doesn’t allow women to have their rights especially to vote?