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1 year, 29 days 19th: Grants women the right to vote. June 4, 1919 August 18, 1920 1 year, 75 days 20th: ... indicates that state ratified amendment, later rescinded ...
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. Tennessee ...
After another ten years, in 1952, Virginia ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, followed by Alabama in 1953. [274] After another 16 years, Florida and South Carolina passed the necessary votes to ratify in 1969, followed two years later by Georgia , [ 275 ] Louisiana and North Carolina .
The 19th Amendment, which ensures women the right to vote, was ratified August 18, 1920. [369] However, Maryland did not ratify the Amendment until March 29, 1941. The Maryland Senate and the Maryland House of Delegates both voted against women's suffrage in 1920. [ 370 ]
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 ...
Amelia McNeil-Maddox, an 18-year-old voter from Maine, says the coincidence of the anniversary with her first time voting underlies just how monumental the right to vote even is.
The year after Berger proposed his amendment, Congress passed an amendment mandating popular election of Senators which was duly ratified by the several states. An anti-miscegenation amendment was proposed by Representative Seaborn Roddenbery , a Southern Democrat from Georgia , in 1912 to forbid interracial marriages nationwide.