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The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as well as the 150th anniversary of the first women voting in Utah, which was the first state in the nation where women cast a ballot. [143] An annual celebration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, known as Women's Equality Day, began on August 26, 1973. [144]
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848 ...
Immediately following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, many legislators feared a powerful women's bloc would emerge as a result of female enfranchisement. The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, which expanded maternity care during the 1920s, was one of the first laws passed appealing to the female vote. [327]
Voting in the 1972 Presidential Primary Election in Birmingham, Alabama. 1970. Alaska ends the use of literacy tests. [48] Native Americans who live on reservations in Colorado are first allowed to vote in the state. [54] 1971. Adults aged 18 through 21 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Nineteenth Amendment in the National Archives. 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, stating: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. [29]
Fairchild v. Hughes, 258 U.S. 126 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a general citizen, in a state that already had women's suffrage, lacked standing to challenge the validity of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. [1]
The league made voting part of its social justice campaign, continuing a push for widespread voting rights the 19th Amendment ignored.
The 19th Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920. Called the Women's Suffrage Amendment, it reads: The right of citizens on the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.