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Women’s Equality Day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, which guarantees all American #women the right to vote.
The amendment changed federal law & America.
#WomensEqualityDay | #19Amendment | #becauseofthemwecan
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The amendment changed federal law & America.
#WomensEqualityDay | #19Amendment | #becauseofthemwecan
@USArmyEURAF | @USArmy
The drive to win the vote was an extensive & diverse effort. But, it did not guarantee all women this right. Chinese American women fought for the right to vote until 1943, Japanese and other Asian American women until 1952.
#WomensEqualityDay | #19Amendment | @DeptofDefense
#WomensEqualityDay | #19Amendment | @DeptofDefense
American Indian women were only able to win the right to vote by fighting for it state by state. The last state to guarantee voting rights for Native people was Utah in 1962.
#WomensEqualityDay | #19Amendment | #DEOMI
#WomensEqualityDay | #19Amendment | #DEOMI
December 5th, 1955: A 26-year-old baptist minister helped to organize a boycott addressing racially segregated bus systems in Montgomery, Alabama as well as the unconstitutional arrest of Rosa Parks just four days before. This organizer was Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
On December 1st, we discussed the starting point for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Check out that thread:
When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to leave her seat for a white man, Black community leaders began to organize. A group of Black women, known as the Women’s Political Council, began to circulate fliers calling for a boycott on the day Parks would be tried.
