After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...
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After the United States entered the war, American suffragists strongly felt ... maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing ...
The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks.
After the Civil War, when the 15th Amendment enfranchised Black men but ignored all women, white suffrage leaders excluded African American women from the movement. By the 1890s, some had begun to ...
Women around the country set up Women's Suffrage Groups to campaign for the ... Petitions Writing letters to politicians Speeches Posters Over time they won some publicity, and their membership ...
when Congress authorized the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation to “establish a commemorative work on federal land in Washington, D.C., to honor the pioneers of the early American ...