Why is it important to vote?

African Americans and women were not allowed to vote doing salary time. Because white men in eighteen hundredth thought women shouldn't count, because they weren't head of house hold. They thought African Americans were only good enough to clean houses and out doors. Because they weren't able to vote they got treated poorly, no freedom and couldn't speak up on anything.If we don't take voting and our community seriously we'll lose a lot of our rights.If we lose we'll have to live on back burner again. African American men and women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Candy Stanton, Sojourner Truth,Martin Luther King Jr.and Fredrick Douglas fight ed for us to be able to vote so we can have a fair share of rights.