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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]
On August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. The amendment came after more than 70 years of struggle for women suffragists ...
The Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited the denial of suffrage because of sex, was colloquially known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. [ 184 ] [ 185 ] After it was ratified in 1920, the National American Woman Suffrage Association , whose character and policies were strongly influenced by Anthony, was transformed into the League of Women ...
Ribbon badge, 1920, "Under the 19th Amendment I Cast My First Vote - Harding/Coolidge". 1986.0640.001. Keywords: Campaign Democracy Political History Suffrage: IIM version: 4: Lens used: HC 120: Serial number of camera: DH40016306: Writer: National Museum of American History: Date and time of digitizing: 15:14, 29 October 2015: Rating (out of 5) 0
Charles City, Iowa. Photo uploaded with permission of the National Nineteenth Amendment Society. Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in ...
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
The militant tactics of British and American suffragettes helped secure voting rights for women (in Britain, those rights were secured via Parliamentary acts passed in 1918 and 1928, and in the U ...
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that every vote — past, present, and future — matters a lot. Amelia McNeil-Maddox, an 18-year-old voter from Maine, says the coincidence of the ...