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Doc of the Day: Nineteenth Amendment
On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment legalized women’s suffrage in the United States. Susan B. Anthony, the author of the amendment, did not live to see Congressional passage or ratification of her proposal. Her death in 1906 followed a long career as a suffragist and general [...]
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Doc of the Day: July 20
On July 20, 1848, the members of the first women’s rights convention (gathered in Seneca Falls, New York) signed a declaration of sentiments. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the declaration. Modeling her work on the Declaration of Independence, the author sought to address the wrongs perpetrated against womankind and called for redress of those wrongs. In [...]
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