History of the 19th Amendment: Women’s Right to Vote, 100 Years Ago
4 min readAug 26, 2020
One hundred years ago, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted. This prohibited both the Federal government and State governments from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States based on sex. Effectively, this meant that the right to vote could no longer be denied to women. The text, in part, read:
