Bringing visibility to the stories of all women who were bold, who rewrote the rules that didn’t make sense and who made great sacrifices to ensure that we won the right to vote is how we’ll all win.
Amendment that gave women the right to vote on August 26, 1920. However it wasn’t until 1965, when thewas passed, that more barriers were removed from preventing many African American women and other women of color from being able to cast their ballot. Too many barriers still exist today for all women, and we’re not giving up the fight.
So many women and men worked together across generations to help us secure the right to vote. Some are shared in history books, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A movement is created by a collective of brave rule breakers, and there are so many others who also helped pave the way for us today., from all backgrounds who were part of the women’s suffrage movement,” says Megan Smith, CEO of shift7 and former U.S. chief technology officer.
Women have long been written out of history books. Gloria Steinem famously said, “Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been part of history.” further points out that the suffrage movement has always been championed by women of all races and backgrounds; suffrage history includes moments of discrimination and exclusion of others by white women suffragists.
Today in honor of Women’s Equality Day, let’s shine a spotlight on the amazing strength and achievements of the suffragists. Here are just a few of the women who came before and helped you win the right to cast your ballot today.A former slave who became one of the most powerful voices of the women’s suffrage and abolitionist movement, she successfully ran away from her slave owner with her infant daughter after the passage of the New York Anti-Slavery Law of 1827.
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