The amendment, ratified a century ago, is often described as having “given” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of ...

One hundred years ago this month Tennessee was the last state — with Wisconsin the first — to ratify the 19th Amendment allowing all American women to vote.

“The 1920s and the 19th Amendment was a big milestone for certain people,” she tells Mic. "But I don’t want to celebrate too much when it hasn’t been 100 years for a lot of people in this ...

It’s been 100 years since the 19th Amendment gave women the vote. What’s changed, and what hasn’t? ... protests, hunger strikes, feeding tubes. Really, it was a beginning.

In short, the 19 th amendment lifted discrimination on the basis of sex, paving the way for women to vote. It signposted the granting of women’s suffrage after a long and hard-won protest by ...

A committed suffragist, Rankin voted for the 19th Amendment in 1918. 13. In 1917 the National Woman’s Party organized protests outside the White House to pressure President Woodrow Wilson to ...

One hundred years ago, both chambers of Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed American women the right to vote. The landmark amendment was ratified into the U.S. Constitution the ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The 19th Amendment is marked by decades of activism and protests, becoming the center of more than 40 years of debate in Congress. Inside Kansas Politics hosts Rebekah Chung and ...