Amendment XIX

Amendment XIX
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote.

It only took the US 50 years after Blacks were given the right to vote to give women the right to vote. That is a shame. It shouldn’t have taken Congress 50 years the right to vote, when they were always considered to count for one whole person. It is ridiculous that it took Women’s Suffrage and hundreds of protests to gain access to a part of American citizenry that white males had from the beginning and black males (technically) for 50 years prior. Women protested Capitol Hill trying to the Nineteenth Amendment on the ballot; they were jailed and sometimes abused in order to gain the right to vote. Susan B Anthony and Cady Stanton played a large role in Women’s Suffrage.


This video is a collection of pictures from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, a movement started to give voting rights to women. The interesting thing about the fact that women didn’t gain the right to vote until 1920, is that white women were considered a higher class citizen than Blacks, yet Blacks were given the right to vote years before women. Two of the most prominent figures in Women’s Suffrage are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who both unfortunately died before the ratification of the 19th Amendment.



This is a video that contains pictures and information about some of the women involved in Suffrage Movement. Many of these women were educated white women who wanted to gain women’s voting right so badly that they were willing to sacrifice the exclusion of Black women in women’s voting rights if it meant gaining the voting rights of white women. I learned that in my Women’s Studies class.