A Woman's Right to Vote

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote

This piece of paper, the 19th Amendment, finally gave women the same rights that men always had, the right for their voice to be heard. It took hundreds of years to get to this point; in August 1920. There were many women who fought for equality. Susan B Anthony is one of the most remembered for her work helping women achieve equal rights.

    As I was reading about Susan's life and work I came across this paragraph. I love what she titled her newspaper. "In 1866 Anthony and Stanton founded the American Equal Rights Association and in 1868 they started publishing the newspaper The Revolution in Rochester, with the masthead "Men their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less," and the aim of establishing "justice for all."
     Anthony did many things to help women get the rights we have today. For 37 consecutive years she went to congress appealing for suffrage rights for women. She fought for women to own their own property, and my favorite is that she wore the "bloomer costume" for over a year trying to convince the world that women didn't always need to be in a dress. You can read more about her by following this link
.http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/biography.php