Some highlights from the decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States ⬇️ TheUncounted
1848: The first convention for women’s rights
What started out as an idea over tea to hold a two-day meeting to discuss women’s rights turned into a convention attended by hundreds in Seneca Falls, New York. In total, 300 attended the convention and 68 women and 32 men signed a “Declaration of Sentiments,” making the first formal demand in the U.S. for women to have the right to vote. The convention did not address the racism and oppression faced by Black women.
The New Mexico Constitution held that “Indians not taxed” could not vote because they didn’t pay property taxes on their land. The problematic provision disenfranchised many and, after gaining attention nationally and from the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, was finally overturned.President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, prohibiting voting discrimination based on “race, color, or national origin.
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