HistoryOn Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage
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Winning the vote |
In 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Still the Southern and Eastern states resisted. World War I slowed the suffragists’ campaign but helped them advance their argument. Women’s work on behalf of the war effort, activists pointed out, proved that they were just as patriotic and deserving of citizenship as men, and on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified.
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The Suffragists |
Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Alice Stone Blackwell, Lucy Stone, Mary Church Terrell, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ward Howe, Frances Willard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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