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Women’s Equality Day is held on August 26 in
celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the Nineteenth Amendment
– the amendment that gave women the right to vote in 1920. The fight for
suffrage lasted 72 years, beginning in 1848. Check out some of these sites
for more information:
The History Channel Women’s History Page
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/?page=suffrage
West Virginia Division of Culture and History Timeline of West Virginia Women’s History
http://www.wvculture.org/history/womtime.html
PBS: Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/index.html
National Women’s History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Collection, 1848-1921 (Library of Congress)
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
West Virginia Secretary of State (for information about voting in West Virginia)
http://www.wvsos.com/
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