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Little-Remembered Stories of Women and the Vote
If women’s news receives the coverage it deserves during the next week or so, then there will be stories about women and the vote. Headlines may read something like: “Ninety Years Since Women Were Given the Vote!”
The problem is “were given” is dead-on inaccurate; even the wording, “got the vote” does not begin to explain the battle that women suffragists waged in order for women to vote.
And why is this coming up in August? August 18, 1920 was the date on which the last vote needed to ratify the amendment was received; August 26th is celebrated as Women’s Suffrage Day, as that is the official day when the amendment became part of the Constitution.
But so much more happened before that.
