Story of America Card of the Week: The 19th Amendment
This is the 19th Amendment. It was passed in on August 18, 1920, giving women the right to vote as full citizens of the republic.
The final passage of the Amendment was the result of much political jockeying between the National American Women’s Sufferage Association, activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns who had split from NAWSA over support for WWI and President Woodrow Wilson, up to his ears in the great war and eyeing re-election that fall.
An excellent dramatic retelling of the process is the film Iron Jawed Angels, which is available on DVD.