What is National Women’s Equality Day?
On this day in 1920, the United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees women full and equal voting rights. Every year on August 26, we celebrate this right with National Women's Equality Day.
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Birth of a movement
Several women were refused entry to the convention floor while in London at the World Anti-Slavery Convention 1840, so many women were denied entry to the convention floor, laying the seeds for a women's rights movement. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton, Elizabeth Cady Staton, Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, along with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, have initiated the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. The conference, which took place at Wesleyan Chapel on July 19-20, 1848, attracted 200 women on the first day. The convention opened to men on the second day, and some did attend.
During the convention, 12 resolutions were presented by leaders. Women should be equal to men socially, economically, legally, and representatively, according to them. All but the 9th were approved unanimously by the Senate. The right to vote sparked fear. Many women believed that doing so would cause a large number of their backers to withhold their funding. The 9th resolution passed after much discussion and the support of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the 9th resolution was also passed.
