06/05/2026
The 19th amendment to the constitution was passed by congress on June 4, 1919, one hundred seven years ago.
“The 19th amendment legally guarantees 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.
The campaign for woman suffrage was long, difficult, and sometimes dramatic; yet ratification did not ensure full enfranchisement. Decades of struggle to include African Americans and other minority women in the promise of voting rights remained. Many women remained unable to vote long into the 20th century because of discriminatory state voting laws.”
(Photo and quotes from archives. gov)
States like Texas are still working to disenfranchise voters, particularly Democratic voters. Remember that women weren’t “given” the right to vote. Women fought hard for the right to vote, and we disrespect those women when we don’t use the right.
