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America Marks 100th Anniversary of Women's Voting Rights

Deborah Block

   WASHINGTON - Feministsin the late 19thand early
   20thcenturiesferventlycampaignedforwomen'ssuffragein the United
   Statesby organizing, petitioning and picketing.

   One hundred yearsagothis month they werefinallygranted the rightto
   votethroughpassage ofthe 19thAmendment to the U.S.Constitution.

   From the time the amendment was introducedtoCongress in 1878,it
   tookmore than 40 yearsforittobepassedandthenratifiedby three-quarters
   of the states.

   Thefightto votegoes backtothe firstwomen's rights convention inSeneca
   Falls, New York,in 1848.Held atWeslyanMethodist Church, the
   conventionwas attended byan estimated300people, including abolitionist
   Frederick Douglass.Nowomen of colorwerepresent.

   The church is now part of the Women's Rights [1]NationalHistoricPark in
   Seneca Falls, which commemorates the birthplace of the women's rights
   movement.

References

   1. https://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm

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