19th Amendment: Women’s Right To Vote
Amendment XIX [1920] 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.
Over at View from the library, the anonymous librarian of the North Metro Technical College writes that she was unable to find anything about the auspicious date 26 August 1920 in the EB or in the EB’s Annals of America using the GALIILEO system.
Actually the event in question is listed on Britannica’s This Day in History (admittedly, not very prominently) and the top hit for a search for “August 26 1920″ is National American Woman Suffrage Association, which includes
Ratified by Congress in June 1919 and 36 states during 1919–20, the [19th] amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920, marking an end to a 72-year struggle.
See “Nineteenth Amendment” in the EB index and the the suffrage movement section of the feminism article for more. There is additional (free!) coverage in Britannica’s Women in American History spotlight.
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