To commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the 10 female presidents of the American Bar Association reflect on the suffragist sisterhood that fought to grant women the right to vote. The ...
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed with a vast majority in Parliament, a short while ago on Tuesday (28), with the government gaining 212 votes in favour. Upon the conclusion of the ...
Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...
One hundred years ago, the 19th Amendment enfranchised millions of women across the United States following a seven-decade campaign. The struggle to expand voting rights to women resonates today as..
Yet, honest reflection on the suffrage movement reveals complexity and tensions over race and class that remain part of the ongoing story of the Nineteenth Amendment and its legacies. Law Day is held ...
TOPEKA – The 19th Amendment is marked by decades of activism and protests, becoming the center of more than 40 years of debate in Congress.Inside Kansas Politics hosts Rebekah Chung and Brian ...
A Republican lawmaker’s attempt to define sex by birth certificate instead of biology failed Friday as the “What is a Woman Act” had its second reading on the Wyoming House floor. State Rep. Julie ...
Activist Alice Paul pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment after the 19th Amendment secured voting rights for American women. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress In 1923, Paul ...
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which ...
In a 232-183 vote, the House approves a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification in a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment. A federal appeals court in Washington dismisses a ...