This year is the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution–the amendment that gave white women the right to vote. For most of us, the idea that women, all women, should be able to cast votes in the nation’s elections seems like a no-brainer. It seems so obvious, so ordinary.
Getting here, to this place when all American women can vote, has been a rocky one though. Filled with violent protests, arrests, court cases and Supreme Court challenges, political cartoons and women leading the charge against their own rights as citizens. [https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage]
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