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In California, women won the right to serve on juries four years after passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In Colorado, it took 33 years. Women continue to face obstacles when running for elective offices, and the Equal Rights Amendment, which would grant women equal rights under the law, has yet to be passed. [123] [124] [125] [126]
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th ... The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was readopted and strengthened in 1970, 1975 ...
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The state of Mississippi belatedly ratifies the 19th Amendment, granting women the vote. 1985 – EMILY's List is founded, its mission to elect Democratic, pro-abortion rights women to office.
Aug. 18 marks 100 years since women gained the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Today, female voters hold a crucial role in American elections.
Missouri is a Supreme Court case in which it ruled that the exemption on request of women from jury service under Missouri law, resulting in an average of less than 15% women on jury venires in the forum county, violated the "fair-cross-section" requirement of the Sixth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Nancy Pelosi, Anna Eshoo, Barbara Lee and Jackie Speier on the 96th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, when women won the right to vote.. Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government ...
In 1920, after four decades of organizing to secure the vote for women, President Woodrow Wilson signed the 19th Amendment. The Constitution is not explicitly an anti-racist document, and neither ...