The 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage on Display March 1 - 8:

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Woman’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, the 19th Amendment will be on display from March 1 to March 8 at the National Archives Building.

The 19th Amendment guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation. Beginning in the mid-19th century, woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered radical change…  

Keep reading at: Prologue: Pieces of History » The 19th Amendment on display at the National Archives

Source: blogs.archives.gov

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    for some reason this just moved me to tears… i was never even a feminist before i got to film school.
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    I’m going to the parade on Sunday, and everyone else should, too!!!
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