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 ...

On July 19, 1848, three hundred men and women gathered in Seneca Falls, New York for a convention that began a movement.

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920. But the fight for women's suffrage started decades earlier. Dr. Martha Jones: "Many of the early womens' rights advocates in the United ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

The passage of the 19th Amendment didn’t exactly follow a linear, standardized timeline. The broad assumption made with the ratification of the 19th Amendment was that the right to contribute to the ...

The nineteenth amendment, which bears her name, was drafted by Miss Anthony in 1875 and first introduced in Congress in 1878 by Senator A.A. Sargent of California; ...

More than 25,000 women take to New York City's Fifth Avenue on October 23, 1915, advocating for women’s voting rights. On August 26, 1920, eight days after it was ratified, the 19th Amendment to ...

On August 19, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land. The law took effect eight days ...

The 19th Amendment said women could not be excluded from the polls because of their sex, but it did not guarantee the ballot. Citizenship laws, threats and violence barred African American, ...

The 19th Amendment is often referred to as the “Women’s Suffrage Amendment.” It was ratified by the states on August 18, 1920. Our Constitution was ratified in 1789.

The certification of the 19th Amendment was on Aug. 26, 1920. In 1973, the United States Congress officially designated Aug. 26 as Women’s Equality Day.