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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...
Why the 18th Amendment on Prohibition was approved and later repealed | Opinion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...
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...
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...
Who was the first congresswoman? How Montana Rep. Rankin made history.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWomen won the right to vote in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified, but three years before...
Trump disses 14th Amendment talk as 'another trick' but efforts to disqualify him continue
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFormer President Donald Trump this week derided talk of invoking the U.S. Constitution's 14th...
The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment
Time via Yahoo News· 2 weeks 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...
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...
Vintage photos show what life was like for women 100 years ago
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoMary Pickford (front center) and other Warner Brothers' actresses at her tea party in 1928.John...