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.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Now discover the women in your family who lived to see this moment.

Now discover the women in your family who lived to see this moment.

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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

Build a free family tree and start looking for your broader history. We'll guide you through.

Build a free family tree and start looking for your broader history. We'll guide you through.