Book April Young Bennett as a motivational speaker for your event.
As we celebrate the Women’s Suffrage Centennial, it is a great time to look back to what we can learn from the past as we work toward a better future. April Young Bennett, author...
Ask a Suffragist Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
“Make me a grave where’er you will…but not in a land where men are slaves.” -Frances E.W. Harper, 1858
Make me a grave where’er you will, In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill; Make it among earth’s humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. -Frances E.W. Harper, 1858...
It was already law, but Connecticut showed its support by ratifying the 19th Amendment on September 14, 1920.
It was already law, but Connecticut showed its support by ratifying the 19th Amendment on September 14, 1920.
New Hampshire ratified the 19th Amendment on September 10, 1919.
New Hampshire ratified the 19th Amendment on September 10, 1919.
Minnesota ratified the 19th Amendment on September 8, 1919.
Minnesota ratified the 19th Amendment on September 8, 1919.
Better late than never! Alabama ratified the 19th Amendment on September 8, 1953.
Better late than never! Alabama ratified the 19th Amendment on September 8, 1953. The 19th had become law in 1920.
“Only faith in ourselves and in each other is needed to work a reformation.” -Marie Zakrzewska, 1857
“Only faith in ourselves and in each other is needed to work a reformation.” -Marie Zakrzewska, 1857 Marie Zakrzewska immigrated from Germany to the United States, and helped pioneer female opportunity to pursue the...
Happy Women’s Equality Day! #WomensEqualityDay
“I say then that justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law.” -Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1866 We celebrate Women’s Equality Day each year to commemorate the day...
The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920, but defending the right to vote is an ongoing struggle.
Tennessee, the last state needed, ratified the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, making votes for women a constitutional right . While the constitution now affirmed the right of women to vote, it would...
“I have this quiet faith in the certain triumph of the right.” -Lucy Stone, 1869
“It is because I have this quiet faith in the certain triumph of the right, that I am entirely undisturbed by anything which venom and ill nature can do.” -Lucy Stone, 1869 Lucy Stone...
The Voting Rights Act became law on August 6, 1965.
On August 6th, 1965, the promise of the Nineteenth Amendment finally became a reality for women of color who had been disfranchised by discriminatory voting laws.
