The Women’s Suffrage Movement continued for 80 years. Many strong women led the movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, and Sojourner Truth.
Susan B. Anthony was another advocate of voting rights for women and equal rights for all. She helped start the national Women’s Suffrage Association in 1869. In her fight to gain the right to vote for women, she actually voted in the November 1872 elections. It was against the law, and she was find $100 for voting. She refused to pay the hundred dollars. Her actions helped spread the word that women should fight for the right to vote.
Leaders of the women’s suffrage movement began their campaign before the Civil War and continued after the war had ended. In July 1918, President Woodrow Wilson publicly supported the women’s suffrage amendment. Congress approved the 19th amendment on June 4, 1919. The states ratified the amendment on August 18, 1920.
The 19th amendment states that the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.