A History of Womens Rights A Movement that continues 100 years after the 19th Amendment

In the months leading up to the start of 2020 women’s groups around the country began planning events to celebrate a huge milestone for females in the United States of America. That milestone was the 19th Amendment which was officially adopted on August 26th, 1920, after Tennessee became the last of 36 states to ratify the amendment. That day marked the final barrier to the Woman’s Suffrage movement as the amendment prohibited states and the federal government from denying women the right to vote. The amendment proposal had been brought to Congress for the first time in 1878, but was rejected.

Prior to 1776 most women had the right to vote within the colonies they lived in, but by the early 1800’s that right had been stripped from them in each state and territory. Not long after that women around the country began movements to regain that right.

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