Make Women’s Equality Day a national holiday
The 19th Amendment was passed August 26, 1920. That date should be observed.
The 19th Amendment was passed August 26, 1920. That date should be observed.
Vanessa Biegel, 11, a fifth grader from Saugerties, can probably tell you a thing or two you didn’t know about the women’s suffrage movement in the state, which was so strong that New York women won the vote in 1917, three years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the American constitution in 1920.
The only known horse-drawn wagon used for grassroots suffrage organizing that remains in existence today, the Spirit of 1776, will be a featured artifact in the exhibition.