On August 18, 1920: the USA affirmed Women's Right to Vote!

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On August 18, 1920: the USA affirmed Women's Right to Vote!

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On August 18, 1920 the women's right to vote was affirmed in the USA, then following this date on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was adopted into the Constitution formally guaranteeing women the right to vote.. It had been a long and sometimes bitter struggle for those involved and it's easy to forget that women paid a huge price to win this victory. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the amendment and first introduced it in 1878; it was forty-one years later, in 1919, when the Congress submitted the amendment to the states for ratification. A thorough article titled, “Suffragists’ Storm Over Washington”, by William and Mary Lavender, in American History Magazine, October 2003, chronicles the historical dates in which the U.S. Suffragettes' struggled for their right to vote. This article can be viewed at: http://www.historynet.com/nineteenth-amendment

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On August 18, 1920: the USA affirmed Women's Right to Vote!

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Suffragette Susan Walker Fitzgerald posting bills [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]. Library of Congress.

Women's suffrage headquarters, Ohio.

American Suffragettes were mighty strong and determined with their conviction for the Right to Vote: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 and Laidlaw, Harriet Burton, 1873-1949 with sisters

Force-feeding was used on Suffragettes who were sent to prison but then went on hunger strike.

“Winning the Vote” captures the color and excitement of a central, inspiring, but largely unknown chapter in American history.

A poem from Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, by Alice Duer Miller, published in 1915, Library of Congress.

UK Suffragette sister: the British suffragettes suspended their campaign to support the home front in World War One.

Emmeline Pankhurst (UK Suffragette leader) voting for the 1st time. USA's British sisters gained the right to vote 10 years after the USA Suffragettes.

Susan B. Anthony stamp

"See How She Grows"

This poster (1912) by John Hassall was commissioned by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage.

"Those" who "Opposed" women suffrage.

Original poster valued at $10,000. - $15,000.

Suffrage parade, women march to win their right to vote in New York City, May 6, 1912.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution, stating: "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."

A suffragette is arrested in London, between 1910 and 1915. The suffragettes in England fought longer and often harder than their U.S. sisters for the right to vote. Their movement preceded the USA and their victory was achieved more than 10 years after the USA. (Bain News Service photograph)

The NWP staged massive demonstrations, including picketing the White House and hanging banners to embarrass President Wilson.

A niece of President Wilson's, Margaret Vale, in a suffrage parade in New York, October 1915. George Grantham Bain Collection photograph.

Amazing women who fought for equal voting rights! I applaud you all!

Suffragettes, New York City, 1913. George Grantham Bain Collection photo.

Suffragettes in New York City holding a sign about a meeting, between 1910

Suffragettes: women who dared

U.S. women suffragists demonstrating for the right to vote, February 1913. Look at their smiles, they are partying down!

Social reformer and woman suffrage movement leader Susan B. Anthony co-founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. She traveled to Grand Island in 1882 to support the upcoming Nebraska election to give women the right to vote.

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