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Ebookshelf: Women's Right to Vote - Celebrating 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment: Ebooks

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, was ratified on August 18, 1920

BW photo of group of suffragists wearing coats, hats, and suffrage sashes and holding banners in front of Lafayette Square headquarters, NWP. Banners read: "Mr. President What Will you do for Woman Suffrage"; "Mr. President You Say 'We Are Interested In The United States Politically Speaking, In Nothing But Human Liberty'"; "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?"; "Mr. President You Say 'Liberty Is The Fundamental Demand of the Human Spirit'"; "Congressional Union for Women Suffrage New York"; and "We Demand an Amendment."