The 19th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago today.
@MonicaHesse writes: Women’s suffrage was a giant leap for democracy. We haven’t stuck the landing yet. https://wapo.st/32679ES
@MonicaHesse writes: Women’s suffrage was a giant leap for democracy. We haven’t stuck the landing yet. https://wapo.st/32679ES
Historians have unearthed new evidence that, because of a strange loophole in New Jersey's state constitution, more than 100 women voted before 1807 https://wapo.st/347KpqZ
In 1840, William Henry Harrison invited women on the campaign trail for the first time, long before they had the power to vote. https://wapo.st/34cV7fM
Suffragist Virginia Minor tried to vote for president in 1872. When she was blocked, she fought all the way to the Supreme Court — a case that led to the push for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. https://wapo.st/3g48tgx
Inez Milholland was a 26-year-old lawyer in 1913 when she was chosen to lead a parade of suffragists on Pennsylvania Avenue atop a white horse. But she didn't live to see the ratification of the 19th Amendment. https://wapo.st/322Jt4u