Delaware ratified the 19th Amendment on March 6, 1923.
The 19th had already had enough supporting states to become law, but Vermont declared their support.
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century
In addition to being a suffragist and abolitionist, Mary Ann Shadd Cary was both the first black American woman to publish and edit a newspaper and the first to attend law school. Mary Ann...
When did your state ratify the Nineteenth Amendment?
In 1920, the United States of America will celebrate the first 100 years of the Nineteenth Amendment. Want to celebrate the day your home state ratified the Nineteenth? Here it is. Congress approved the...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first black woman in North America to edit a newspaper, was born on October 9, 1823.
Happy 195th birthday, Mary Ann! Mary Ann Shadd Cary is one of the suffragists featured in the first Ask a Suffragist book, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, launching in Spring 2019. Join...
Book Launch Scheduled for Spring 2019: America’s First Feminists
The first book in the Ask a Suffragist series, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, will inform modern-day activists with lessons learned from some of the first American suffragists and feminists. What can modern...
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