Votes for Women Celebrating 100 years since Women Achieved Suffrage in America

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the amendment to the United States Constitution that ensured, once and for all, that women could vote in our country. Today many of us take voting for granted. But we should always be aware of the struggles of those women (and men too) who proved that women are equal citizens to men and that they too have a right to decide on the government that rules over them.

The battle for women’s suffrage was long and difficult. It took many minds and many voices to change popular opinion and change did not happen quickly. But after all their combine efforts, in August 1920, the 19th Amendment proclaimed “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

This timeline highlights many of the actions and events that paved the path to women’s suffrage, both here in New Jersey and in the national arena.

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