Even a century after Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, there are still a lot of misunderstandings about what that 39-word addition to the Constitution ...

This year marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment ostensibly gave women the right to vote. The milestone came after decades of fighting, sacrifice and even death, and was followed by movements to ...

“The primary beneficiaries of the 19th Amendment at first were white women and the small minority of African American women who lived in northern and western states, where there were no racial ...

Ngai explained that, even after the 19th Amendment’s passage, American women had limited independence: Their citizenship was tied to their fathers or husbands and they were stripped of their ...

Here\u2019s a look at how the 19th amendment was ratified, the role Utah played and other factors of one of the most influential changes to the Constitution. \n ...

In August 1920, women across America celebrated the adoption of the 19th Amendment. At the National Woman’s Party headquarters in Washington, Alice Paul, the group’s leader, triumphantly ...

Martha Hise, president of the Lubbock County League of Women Voters, said she couldn't imagine a United States without the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

The 19th amendment was ratified 100 years ago this year and while things are now easier for women to vote, it wasn’t always that way. Karen Pawloski, deputy director of the Washington County ...

Women may have won the vote in 1920, but one Howard University associate professor explained that for Black women, the fight to get their votes counted went on far longer. The 19th Amendment that ...

The 19th Amendment did not bring the right to vote to all Native women, but two experts in a conversation said it did usher in the possibility of change. By Cathleen D. Cahill and Sarah Deer ...

Even a century after Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, there are still a lot of misunderstandings about what that 39-word addition to the Constitution ...