920: Women’s Suffrage

 920: Women’s Suffrage

> Date: Aug. 26

> Location: Washington D.C.

Though the United States was founded under democratic principles, only a minority of its population — in the beginning only white landowning males over the age of 21 — could actually vote. But after the 19th Amendment of the Constitution was passed, women finally gain a voice and the right to cast their ballots, though the voting rights fight was far from over for many African American women, especially in the South