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 ...
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 ...
She would not have the right to vote for another 45 years, but women did not wait for that right to be given to them — they took it. This year marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th ...
Republicans' answer to the problem of the Black vote was to add a Constitutional amendment that guaranteed Black suffrage in all states, and no matter which party controlled the government.