Women’s Suffrage Anniversary
In 2020, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Beginning with the 1848 women’s rights conference at Seneca Falls in upstate New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, and others advocated tirelessly to secure voting rights for women throughout the country. The Wyoming territory was first in securing voting rights for women in 1869, followed by the Utah territory in 1870. Seraph Young became the first woman in the United States to vote by casting a ballot in a municipal election in Salt Lake City, Utah territory. Some states secured voting rights for women before 1920. The passage of the 19th Amendment, on August 18, 1920, guaranteed all women the right to vote throughout the United States.
