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...
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay! #IWD2020 #EachforEqual #GenerationEquality
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.” -Alice Paul Happy International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is celebrated every March 8th. It is a global day...
Women of Utah Territory voted in their first election on Valentine’s Day, 1870.
It was the first time American women voted since New Jersey women lost the right in 1807. Wyoming women also had the right to vote, but had not held an election yet since women...
Female First Responders: Clara Barton #19forthe19th
The founder of the American Red Cross was also a suffragist. “Perfectly equal rights—human rights. There was never any question in my mind in regard to this.” #19forthe19th @usnatarchives via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B2RX7vshSRW/
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...
When did women in your state get the right to vote?
While we commemorate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 as when American women won the right to vote, in fact, some groups of American women were voting 50 years before the Nineteenth...
