Tuesday, August 18, 2015

19th Amendment

As a women I cannot even imagine a World I could not vote in!

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the
"19th amendment".

The "19th amendment".guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

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