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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]
Senate votes are from the California Senate Daily Journal [25] and Proposition 19 outcomes are from the California Secretary of State. [26] The vote designation of "Abstain" is for those Legislators present on the day of the vote, [27] but who did not record a vote for or against ACA 11. Senate districts are based on the applicable 2011 district.
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]
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 ...
Voting in the 1972 Presidential Primary Election in Birmingham, Alabama. 1970. Alaska ends the use of literacy tests. [49] Native Americans who live on reservations in Colorado are first allowed to vote in the state. [55] 1971. Adults aged 18 through 21 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Prior to the 19 th Amendment, only men were enfranchised to vote Please remember that only men could vote in the United States or in any state until the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920.
In 1911 California voters, in a special election, narrowly granted women the right to vote, nine years before the 19th Amendment enfranchised women nationally in 1920, but over 41 years later than the women of Wyoming had been granted the right to vote.
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.