Date Created:
Place Created: Washington, DC
Year Created: 1920
Description: The 19th Amendment granted American women the legal right to vote, a milestone achieved through decades of struggle. Beginning in the mid-19th century, generations of suffragists engaged in lectures, writings, marches, lobbying efforts, and acts of civil disobedience to push for what was once seen as a radical constitutional change. However, few of the movement’s early advocates lived to witness its ultimate success in 1920.
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Sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the several States.
"ARTICLE ————.
"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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
[endorsements]
Source: The Nationa Archives
Citation: June 4, 1919.; Ratified Amendments, 1795-1992; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.