New Hampshire ratified the 19th Amendment on September 10, 1919.
New Hampshire ratified the 19th Amendment on September 10, 1919.
Author: April Young Bennett
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...
April Young Bennett talks to kids about the Nineteenth Amendment: why it matters, and why it wasn’t the end of the struggle.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, the children’s newspaper News-O-Matic interviewed April Young Bennett about how it was won, why it mattered, and why more steps were needed before every...
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...
Freedom takes the form of a woman at the United States Capitol Building.
Suffragists found this symbolism ironic, because they has so few freedoms that men enjoyed. #womenshistory #suffrage100 #suffragecentennial suffrage via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CCdiPlBhkVY/
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...
Sojourner Truth at the United States Capitol
Sojourner Truth‘s face is one of the first you see at the Votes for Women tour at the United States Capitol. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CDjiZfxBXzz/ Sojourner Truth is one of the suffragists featured in the...
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.
