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Nineteenth Amendment

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Nineteenth Amendment
granted women right to vote (1920). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 409]
See : Equality

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Perhaps it hardly needs stating that this is a historical image, one plucked from the pages of Life magazine and documenting a 1970 Women's Liberation demonstration, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment.
An author's note extends the historical context, cites her subject's autobiography as the primary source, and lists significant dates from Sojourner Truth's birth to the Nineteenth Amendment, rounding out her postwar dedication to women's rights as well as to the concerns of freed slaves.
until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, in 1920.
 
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