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Women's Vote Centennial

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Celebrate, Educate and Continue



"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."

the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution



The 19th Amendment was one of the most impactful expansion of democracy in the history of the United States of America. The Women's Suffrage Movement and along with the Woman Suffrage Procession on Washington, D.C. on March 3rd 1913, removed obstacles to voting for women along with the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Thus, paving the way forward to empowerment of women's rights and issuses throughout various facets of American society.




Women's Vote Suffrage Facts


Fact:

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  The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote in America, was first proposed and rejected in 1878, then reintroduced every year for the next 41 years. In 1984, Mississippi became the last state to ratify it.

Fact:

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  In 1797, New Jersey temporarily granted voting rights to unwed women. For the next 10 years, single women were permitted to cast ballots. Married women weren’t given this privilege because their husbands legally controlled every piece of property they owned.

Fact:

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  Not all suffrage opponents were men. Alice Hay Wadsworth was among the most prominent women to denounce what became the 19th amendment. Wadsworth was the former president of the National Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage and the wife of Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., Republican of New York.

Fact:

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  Eight days after the 19th amendment was ratified, 10 million women joined the electorate.



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Women’s Suffrage Photo Gallery

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution in 1868. This periodical carries the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!”
Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offices of The Suffragist, the weekly journal published by the Congressional Union and the National Woman’s Party from 1913 to 1921
The Woman’s Journal is founded and edited by Mary Livermore, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell.
In Vineland, New Jersey, 172 women cast ballots in a separate box during the Presidential Election of 1868. 2001.0305.01.
Warriors, Agnes Lester, Marjorie Follette, Emily Knight, Elizabeth Van Sickle, and Carol Lester, were all prominent young girls of Seneca Falls. These girls were warriors in the Drama depicting the Progress of Women to be given at the reception at Seneca Falls, NY.
Women matching in a national suffrage demonstration in Washington, D.C. on May 9th, 1914
In 1878, a Woman Suffrage Amendment is proposed in the U.S. Congress. When the 19th Amendment passes forty-one years later, it is worded exactly the same as in 1878.
A Woman’s Suffrage pin.
The front page of the “Woman’s journal and Suffrage news” with the headline: “Parade Struggles to victory despite disgraceful scenes. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organized a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Forty thousand march in a NYC suffrage parade. Many women are dressed in white and carry placards with the names of the states they represent
Suffragist, Abby Scott Baker, in a prison dress in 1917
Alison Turnbull Hopkins at the White House on New Jersey Day
The Anti-Suffrage Party was founded in 1871.
The National Women’s Party watches as a fire burns outside of the White House in January 1919.
A cell at the Occoquan Workhouse. This is the same jail that women of the suffrage movement were brought to when they were arrested.
The Declaration of Sentiments was created. In 1840, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are barred from attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. This prompts them to hold a Women’s Convention in the U.S. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes “The Declaration of Sentiments” and presents it at the Seneca Falls, NY Women’s Rights Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all, regardless of gender or race.
Women ask President Harding for Equal Rights Legislation. Fifty prominent members of the New National Woman’s Party called at the White House to ask the President’s Aid in passing an “Equal Rights Bill” in the next Congress. The bill would give women full equality in the government.

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