WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
Aug 20, 2020
3 minutes
BY KRIS MANTY
Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images
Photo: Underwood Archives/Getty Images
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment in the United States, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote.
It took activists and reformers of the women’s suffrage movement more than 70 years to win this right and on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, and on August 26,
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