September 2020 Newsletter

Suffragists began their organized fight for women’s equality in 1848 when they demanded the right to vote during the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 72 years, women leaders lobbied, marched, picketed, and protested for the right to the ballot. The U.S. House of Representatives finally approved the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote, on May 21, 1919. The U.S. Senate followed two weeks later, and the 19th Amendment went to the states, where it had to be ratified by 3/4ths of the-then-48 states to be added to the Constitution. By a vote of 50-47, Tennessee became the last state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby issued a proclamation declaring the 19th Amendment ratified and part of the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920, forever protecting American women’s right to vote. FROM 2019-2020, THE UNITED STATES WILL CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT AND WOMEN’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE. WOMENS' RIGHT TO VOTE THROUGHOUT THE DECADES 1920 1920 1920 1920 White Women's vote became protected Asian American Women's vote became protected Native American Women's vote became protected African American Women's vote became protected Hispanic Women's vote became protected 1920 10