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#Suffrage

11 entries

People (2)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Suffragist, abolitionist, and primary architect of the American women's rights movement

Susan B. Anthony

The suffragist whose half-century of organizing made the 19th Amendment possible

Events (2)

Seneca Falls Convention

The 1848 gathering that launched the organized American women's rights movement

Women's Suffrage Movement

The seven-decade campaign that won American women the right to vote in 1920

Documents (7)

Ain't I a Woman?

Sojourner Truth's case for equal rights, 1851

Equal Rights Amendment

The Proposed Constitutional Amendment for Gender Equality, 1923–Present

Nineteenth Amendment

The Constitutional Amendment That Gave Women the Right to Vote, 1920

The D.C. Voting Rights Amendment

The failed amendment to give Washington full representation in Congress

Twenty-fourth Amendment

The abolition of the poll tax in federal elections

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Lowering the voting age to eighteen

Twenty-third Amendment

Presidential electors for the District of Columbia

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