19th amendment

     

The Nineteenth Amenment may refer to the:

Trivia about 19th amendment

  • It's the number of the U.S. Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote
  • Women's Equality Day, August 26, celebrates the enactment of this number amendment in 1920
  • In 1917 Alice Paul, arrested while agitating for this constitutional amendment, was force fed to end her hunger strike
  • Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed it at home Aug. 26, 1920; his wife & daughters must have been excited