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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
In 1920, about six months before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, Emma Smith DeVoe and Carrie Chapman Catt agreed to merge the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Council of Women Voters to help newly enfranchised women exercise their responsibilities as voters. Originally only women could join the league, but in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 centennial should certainly be appreciated as a milestone in American democracy. The 19th Amendment was an incomplete victory, and these first-time voters know it Skip to main content
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.