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Updated: September 12, 2023 | Original: August 13, 2020. copy page link. Print Page. GraphicaArtis/Getty Images. By the time the final battle over ratification of the 19th Amendment went...
First proposed in 1878, the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” was introduced in each Congress—unchanged—for the next four decades. Congress finally approved it on June 4, 1919. The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.
Aug 18, 2023 · August 18, 2023 | by Michael Boyd. More in Constitution Daily Blog. On this day in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, ensuring that the amendment guaranteeing a woman’s right to vote would be adopted into the U.S. Constitution.
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The 19th Amendment (PDF, 33KB) to the Constitution granted women the right to vote and was ratified by the states on August 18, 1920. A women's suffrage amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878.
Signed into law on August 26, 1920, the passage of the 19th Amendment was the result of decades of work by tens of thousands across the country who worked for change. Use this site to discover some of the stories of women and men who fought for women’s suffrage rights.
The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-sixth Congress, on the 4th of June, 1919, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 26th of August, 1920, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States.
