On the 100th anniversary of ratification, take a look back at some of the highlights, milestones, disappointments and victories of the women's suffrage movement.
It seems hard to believe that there was a time when American women were not able to participate in democracy. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified by 36 states and made law in 1920, finally gave women in the United States the right to vote, though women of color would still face barriers to voting for decades to come.Many of the women who started the fight to win the right to vote did not live to see the amendment passed or cast their own ballots in the 1920 election.
“The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do,” Running under the banner of the Equal Rights Party, Woodhull and her unofficial running mate, Frederick Douglass – who never accepted the nomination, receive a small number of votes in the presidential election. Federal Court rules that citizenship does not automatically give someone the right to vote in United States v. Susan B. Anthony case. She is fined $100.
Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard and other suffragist leaders found the International Council of Women. After taking opposing views and strategies for decades, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merge, becoming the National American Woman Suffrage Association and combining their techniques of advocating for a constitutional amendment and working to make changes at the state level.
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