Votes for Women

In 2020, the 19th amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote, celebrated its 100th anniversary. Suffragists began their organized fight for women’s equality in 1848 when they demanded the right to vote during the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 72 years, women lobbied, marched, picketed, and protested for the right to cast a ballot.