Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the ...

Wells mosaic is also a monument to women’s suffrage Look closely at this floor ... a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” For nearly a century, those 24 words have been the subject of a ...

“In addition to commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Women’s Suffrage National Monument will recognize the generations of women who fought to ensure an equal voice for ...

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

Alice Paul, seated second from left, sews the 36th star on a banner, celebrating the ratification of the women's suffrage amendment in August 1920. The 36th star represented Tennessee, whose ...

takes part with suffragettes marching from the Women's Party Headquarters to the White House in the spring of 1917, to further their cause for voting rights. (AP Photo, File) ...

Charles Curtis, a Kansas Republican. Paul's original amendment text stated: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.