Calling the victory hard-won would be an understatement: Denounced by many, the 19th amendment had an ... cast the first female ballot in post-amendment history in a local alderman race four ...

“[The 19th Amendment] is not beginning or the end of a story,” says Lisa Tetrault, associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the upcoming book A Celebrated But ...

She is also a member of the League of Women Voters. One hundred years ago, the 19th Amendment enfranchised millions of women across the United States following a seven-decade campaign. The ...

So, today, we're going to learn six facts about the 19th Amendment. [upbeat music] Starting with fact one, demanding the right to vote wasn't a popular idea at the Seneca Falls Convention.

who shared six facts about the 19th Amendment you might not know. 1. The fights for racial and gender equality have a shared but contentious past. “Before the Civil War, the two movements were ...

Time can often twist the real story, turning rumor into legend. There's plenty of "history" surrounding the 19th Amendment and the suffragists that needs to be unlearned. The idea that all women ...

The history of the 19th Amendment is more than myth; it is a cautionary tale for our own time. A series of talks about the legacy of women's sufferage, August 10 - 14, 2020. August 26, 2020 will ...

In the century since the 19th Amendment was ratified ... an associate professor of history at Wayne State University and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Their efforts are all too often left out of the history of women’s suffrage in America. But as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment this month, it is important to remember ...

Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter When states ratified the 19th amendment well after 1920 it was more of a ceremonial gesture, but one that still ...

One hundred years ago, the 19th Amendment enfranchised millions of women across the United States following a seven-decade campaign. The struggle to expand voting rights to women resonates today ...

16. Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League of Women Voters on Feb. 14, 1920, at the NAWSA convention. Tennessee became the final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment six months later. 17 ...