TheHill
•
18th August 2020
It has been 100 years since the passing of the 19th Amendment
It has officially been 100 years since Aug. 18, 1920, the historic day that the 19th Amendment was ratified and women were, in so many words, granted the constitutional right to vote in the United States. It’s an event glamorized and glorified in textbooks, an event that did help pave the way for the progression of the women’s rights movement, especially in the realm of politics. But many Americans are unaware of the full story.
In reality, the 19th Amendment didn’t even name women explicitly,