Ratification of the 19th amendment

The beginning of the suffrage movement

1848

Women first organized and collectively fought for suffrage at the national level in July of 1848. Suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott convened a meeting of over 300 people in Seneca Falls, New York. In the following decades, women marched, protested, lobbied, and even went to jail.

the fight for school suffrage continues

1902

The Kentucky legislature reversed itself in 1902 and took away this limited suffrage over fears that African American women voters would support Republican candidates for school board. After a concentrated lobbying campaign by the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs, women in these cities won school suffrage back in 1912 but with an added literacy test for women voters.

Kentucky passes a suffrage amendment

Mar 8, 1916

Kentucky's senate passes a suffrage amendment by a vote of 26 to 8

Kentucky ratify the 19th amendment

Jan 6, 1920

The 19th amendment allows all American women to vote.

Women are allowed to vote in presidential elections

Mar 29, 1920

This allowed women in Kentucky the right to vote for the president of American

Every Women in the United States can vote

Aug 18, 1920

Tennesse ratifies the 19th Amendment, allowing everyone in every state the right to vote, not based on gender.