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Nineteenth Amendment    1920

Women's Right to Vote

Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History        NYT        15 January 2020

Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History        Video        The New York Times        15 January 2020

Harnessing the power of its new Democratic majority,

the Virginia legislature is poised to vote this week

to become the 38th of the 38 states

needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment,

which would make women’s rights

explicit in the Constitution.

In the video Op-Ed above,

the filmmaker Ken Burns compares this historic moment

with the ratification of the 19th Amendment,

which granted women the right to vote 100 years ago.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=e97H2_mElz8

Gov. Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky

signing the 19th Amendment on Jan. 6, 1920.

Photograph: Gretter Studio, via Library of Congress

The Glass Ceiling Holds

NYT

NOV. 11, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/
opinion/sunday/the-glass-ceiling-holds.html 

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

Women's Right to Vote        USA        1920

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote

shall not be denied or abridged by the United States

or by any state on account of sex."

The amendment guarantees

all American women the right to vote.

Achieving this milestone

required a lengthy and difficult struggle;

victory took decades of agitation and protest.

Beginning in the mid-19th century,

several generations

of woman suffrage supporters

lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied,

and practiced civil disobedience to achieve

what many Americans considered

a radical change of the Constitution.

Few early supporters

lived to see final victory in 1920.

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=63

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/amendment-19 

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage 

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-04/

https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/women-suffrage-100

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/
902345079/the-nudge-and-tie-breaker-that-took-womens-suffrage-from-nay-to-yea

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/
us/suffrage-movement-photos-history.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/
insider/suffrage-anniversary.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/
us/suffrage-generations-vote.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/07/
us/suffragists-descendants.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/
style/19th-amendment-native-womens-suffrage.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/
opinion/sunday/19th-amendment-women-suffrage.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/
books/finish-the-fight-excerpt.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/
style/woman-suffrage-movement-descend.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/
us/suffrage-anniversary-fa

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/
us/spanish-flu-womens-suffrage-coronavirus.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2020/02/16/
805727574/19th-amendment-19-women-ny-philharmonics-2020-program-celebrates-suffragettes

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=e97H2_mElz8 - video - NYT - 15 January 2020

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Z1Bgf1FXVCM - NYT - 5 September 2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/06/
590072266/stirring-engrossing-womans-hour-recounts-the-battle-for-suffrage

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/
opinion/sunday/the-glass-ceiling-holds.html

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/05/
500832982/born-before-women-could-vote-now-theyre-proud-to-vote-for-clinton

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/05/
500843129/they-waited-96-years-to-vote-for-the-first-woman-major-party-nominee

suffragist

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/
us/women-voting-rights-suffrage-centennial.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/
opinion/sunday/the-glass-ceiling-holds.html

suffragette

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/
us/women-voting-rights-suffrage-centennial.html

League of Women Voters

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/
opinion/sunday/the-glass-ceiling-holds.html

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