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Wisconsin ratified federal Equal Rights Amendment 50 years ago yet still struggles to pass a state...
The Post-Crescent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAPPLETON — Women’s rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers gathered in Appleton earlier this month...
20 vintage photos of suffragettes that will make you want to get out and vote
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSuffragettes parade through New York City.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images The 19th Amendment...
On This Day, Jan. 16: 18th Amendment -- prohibition of alcohol -- ratified
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNew York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach (R) watches agents pour liquor into sewer...
Vintage photos show what life was like for women 100 years ago
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoMary Pickford (front center) and other Warner Brothers' actresses at her tea party in 1928.John...
What Is Women’s Equality Day?
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhat does Women’s Equality Day honor? Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on August 26 and commemorates the 19th amendment granting women the right to...
Why the 18th Amendment on Prohibition was approved and later repealed | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 9 months agoEditor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics written by...
Trump disses 14th Amendment talk as 'another trick' but efforts to disqualify him continue
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFormer President Donald Trump this week derided talk of invoking the U.S. Constitution's 14th...
Western suffragettes: How Colorado, Wyoming women won voting rights decades ahead of nation
The Coloradoan via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI can’t remember where I first heard it, but for years I believed a fairytale. You see, Women in the...
The Airtight Case Against Texas’ Mail-In Voting Age Requirements
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn Texas and a number of other states, voters age 65 and older have the right to vote by mail for...
Today in History: August 18, 19th Amendment is ratified
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born in present-day America, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina. In 1894, Congress established the ...
