Black women

Continuing the Work of Women’s Equality

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On Aug. 26, 1920, nearly a century after the women’s suffrage movement began, U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed a proclamation officially certifying the recently ratified 19th Amendment and granting women the right to vote. In that moment, nearly 100 years’ worth of persistence, activism and strategy came to fruition.

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