19 facts you should know about the 19th Amendment (via TheConversationUS)
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Karen M. Kedrowski is the current director and Dianne Bystrom is the former director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University. As experts in women's suffrage in the US, Kedrowski and Bystrom say there are 19 facts everyone should know about the 19th Amendment, which in 1920 declared that the right to vote could not be denied to citizens on account of their sex.
They say it's important to note that while some early suffragists were also abolitionists, later members of the party split over support of the 15th Amendment which allowed Black men to vote, but not women.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesOne hundred years ago, the 19th Amendment enfranchised millions of women across the United States following a seven-decade campaign.
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