If we in 2020 believe that we would have marched with the suffragists of 1920, then we must continue their legacy and work to expand voting rights to every American, everywhere.We're giving away a $50 gift card to your favorite indie bookstore!National Museum of American History’s Behring Center,Creating Icons: How We Remember Women’s Suffrage,Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America,slideshow from the National Women’s History Museum,Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote,Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence,Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia: An Illustrated Historical Study,Nevertheless, They Persisted: Women’s Voting Rights and the 19th Amendment,Maker & Muse: Women and Early 20th Century Art Jewelry. The amendment envisages the dilution of many powers of Executive Presidency, which had been in force since 1978. On August 19, 2013, Bolt became the most decorated track and field athlete in World Championship history. In this Aug. 24, 2020, file photo first lady Melania Trump visits an exhibit of artwork by young Americans in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment which afforded the vote to women, at the White House in Washington. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday, one day after her death.China threatens retaliation for Trump's WeChat, TikTok ban.Sept. People with felony records still cannot vote even after their time has been served. 19 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump told Republicans on Saturday not to delay filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Hurricane Teddy: Advisories issued for Bermuda.Sept. The unhoused have similar challenges in many states. Join us in 2020 as we commemorate this centennial year with 12 stories from our holdings for you to save, print, or share.

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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, we read books that are by, for, and about powerful women of all ages. In 1227, Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from the east coast of China west to the Aral Sea, died in camp during a campaign against the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia.In 1587, Virginia Dare was the first child of English parents to be born in the New World -- at Roanoke Island, part of what would become North Carolina.In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was.In 1960, the first commercially produced oral contraceptives went on the market.In 1963, James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. In the 100 years since the suffragist cause gave white American women the right to vote, many museums have gathered the visual history of the movement. Many Indiana women have achieved great accomplishments in the 100 years since the passage of the He was the,In 1982, Lebanon and the Palestine Liberation Organization approved a plan for,In 2005, Dennis Rader, the Kansas man who called himself BTK -- for bind, torture, kill -- and confessed to slaying 10 people, was,In 2008, threatened by impeachment and badgered by faltering economy and security, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf,In 2012, a small plane carrying Philippine Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and three others,In 2013, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, competing in Moscow, became the,In 2019, more than 1 million pro-democracy,A member of the League of Women Voters participates in a demonstration to protest the lack of voting rights for the citizens of Washington, D.C., on the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, in front of the White House in Washington on August 26, 2010.

Every one of these issues affects women’s suffrage and is happening right now.

The bulletin moved just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 18, 1920, conveying the breaking news that the 19th Amendment had been ratified giving women the constitutional right …

19 (UPI) -- New York state plans to honor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a statue in her hometown of Brooklyn, Gov. J. Scott Applewhite / AP

File Photo by Chris Corder/UPI |.Sept. The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, but this landmark event was neither the beginning nor the end of the story for women and their struggle for the right to vote.