Discover your connection to the women who shaped history.
Discover your connection to the women who shaped history.
Discover your connection to the women who shaped history.
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Stories and milestones from the fight for women's voting equality.
Stories and milestones from the fight for women's voting equality.
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Making Them Count:
The Continuing Path to Voting Equality
By Ancestry®
What did the ratification of the 19th Amendment mean to the story of women in America?
Facts
Did you know?
The women's suffrage movement produced the largest one-time increase in voters in American history.
Article
They Would Be Heard: How African American Women Mobilized for Voting Rights
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr
African American women faced racial divisions within the suffrage movement. Explore their fight to overcome obstacles to the ballot.
Article
Through the cracks of the 15th and 19th Amendments
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr
The long and arduous road for African American women and their goal of suffrage for all.
Article
The path to 36: Ratifying the 19th Amendment
By Ancestry®
What if following your mother's advice changed the course of history?
Facts
Did you know?
In 1896, the National Association of Colored Women, led by Mary Church Terell was formed to "secure and enforce civil and political rights.
Article
Making Them Count:
The Continuing Path to Voting Equality
By Ancestry®
Facts
Did you know?
The women's suffrage movement produced the largest one-time increase in voters in American history.
Article
They Would Be Heard: How African American Women Mobilized for Voting Rights
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr