To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
Idaho was the fourth state to enfranchise women, after its neighbors, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, and it would be the last to do so for over a decade. To learn when American women across...
California women had already been voting since 1911. To learn about when other states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did your state ratify the Nineteenth Amendment? To learn when American women across the...
“I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent; I have worked for freedom. I have labored to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.” -Sarah...
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else, but independent, responsible workers in carrying forward the grand eternal plans in the redemption of...
California women’s strategy of organizing in rural counties, where opposition was less organized, paid off for California women when rural counties carried the vote for women’s suffrage in 1911. When California women won the...
“The fact that somebody is displeased is no evidence that we are wrong.” —Mary Ann Shadd, 1854 Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first black woman in North America to edit a newspaper and...
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
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.
New Hampshire ratified the 19th Amendment on September 10, 1919.
About the series:
Ask a Suffragist Book Series
About the first book:
America's First Feminists
Coming Soon:
Activists Who Built a Movement
Be the first to know when new books are available!
Join our email list.
Book April as a motivational speaker for your event.
Recent Email Newsletters
