Thread by @SETAF_Africa

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.

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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.

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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.

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Black women waited more than 40 years, until passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act truly guaranteed all women the right to #vote.

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#WomensEqualityDay is also about recognizing the contributions of women in the fight for #equality. Women like Marguerite Higgins, reporter and war correspondent who became the 1st woman to win a #Pulitzer in 1951 for Foreign Correspondence for her coverage of the Korean War.

And women like Elizabeth Peratrovich, an Alaska native of the Tlingit nation & civil rights leader. Her activism led to passage of the Alaska Territory’s first anti-discrimination act in 1945.

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And Col. Florence Blanchfield, the first woman commissioned in the regular army when General Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed her as a lieutenant colonel in the @USArmy.

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