26th AUGUST - Women's Equality Day

This day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which granted the women right to vote.

In 1971, the U.S. Congress officially recognized August 26 as Women's Equality Day.
The date commemorates the 1920 certification of the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
The day also calls attention to women's continuing efforts toward full equality.
Before the Civil War in the United States, the movement for women's suffrage was started. Most of the states in the U.S by the 1830s have extended voting rights from rich white male property owners to just white men regardless of how much property they owned.
During the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association emerged and it was headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote before the end of the decades.
Some of the other Western states in 1910 began to give women the right to vote. Also, several Eastern and Southern states refused to give women the right to vote.

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