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On This Day, Aug. 18: 19th Amendment ratified giving women the vote
United Press International via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA member of the League of Women Voters participates in a demonstration to protest the lack of voting...
On This Day, Feb. 3: 15th Amendment ratified
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAn 1870 print celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
On This Day, Aug. 26: 19th Amendment goes into effect
United Press International via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMore than 25,000 women take to New York City's Fifth Avenue on October 23, 1915, advocating for...
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...
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...
'Why can't Mother vote?' Two Tennesseans vital to passage of 19th Amendment | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Aug. 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to ratify the 19th Amendment. Since...
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Here's when it was ratified.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWomen are more likely to vote than men, according to data from the Center for American Women and...
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...
Presidents and the First Amendment: Power, accountability and the rights that keep us free
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWhen you’re the president of the United States, the First Amendment can have a downside. There you...
The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment
Time via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the...