19th Amendment and Women's Issues

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This paper examines at the background to the 19th Amendment and the fight by women such as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone to obtain equal rights for women. It also looks at how the women who fought long and hard to get the vote in the 19th century have translated themselves into the 21st century women who seek to unite the common aspirations and struggles of the helpless and disenfranchised, like women.

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"Two hundred members of the National Women's Party picketed the White House in Washington DC, holding signs and banners, but who were arrested and brutally treated by the police (Farber). New York joined the other states in granting women the right to vote. Montana elected Jeannette Rankin as the first woman member of the House of Representatives. Michigan, South Dakota and Oklahoma later joined the move. In 1919, both houses of Congress passed the 19th Amendment and, the following year, with of all the states ratified it. Pro-women suffrage advocates and supporters fought consistently and feverishly against those who opposed it."

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