Message #99405

[Bianca]

                                                      O N   T H I S   D A Y:




On Aug. 26, 1920,


      The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote,



was certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.










Suffragettes protesting at the 1920 Republican Convention.
Left to right: Mrs. James Rector, Mary Dubrow, and Alice Paul.



Sign reads:

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the
success of a party that ignores her self." -

Susan B. Anthony, 1872