nineteenth amendment
Women's voting rights
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
It prohibited denying or restricting voting rights on the basis of sex.
The amendment represented the culmination of decades of suffragist activism: The Nineteenth Amendment finally gave my great-grandmother the vote.
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- women's suffrageVoting rights for females
- womenFemale adults collectively
- right to voteLegal power to elect
- voteFormal choice expression
voting rights · 1920 · ratification · equality · constitution · feminism · ballot · polling · polling place · rights · Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Seneca Falls · prohibition · citizenship · democracy · enfranchisement · activism
nineteenth amendmentvoter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
disenfranchisement · poll taxes · literacy tests · Jim Crow laws · grandfather clauses
nineteenth amendmentcoverture
Wife's suspended legal identity
nineteenth amendmentFifteenth Amendment
Prohibited race-based voting denial
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