Fun Facts: Women's Right to Vote AmeriClean Newsletter - October 2008
It might be hard to imagine, but women couldn’t vote until 1920. As we near the 2008 presidential elections, it’s important to remember that voting is a right we shouldn’t take for granted.
The first women’s rights convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York.
In 1868, the 14th Amendment extended the protections of the U.S. Constitution to protect citizens against unjust state laws. It was also the first amendment to define “citizens” and “voters” as “male.”
Susan B. Anthony was arrested for trying to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election.
A women’s suffrage amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878, but took over forty years to pass.
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