The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of sex.
It was the result of decades of work by suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many others.
August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, marking the certification of the 19th Amendment.
The amendment brought millions of new voters into American democracy.
The First Amendment protects the right of people to gather peacefully and to petition the government.
The Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell are two of America’s most famous symbols of freedom.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring enslaved people in Confederate states to…
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.