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#                 Votes for Women      

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After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives collaborated to share this history on social media. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition *Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence* featured more than 120 portraits and objects spanning 1832 to 1965. View selections from the exhibition on the Google Arts and Culture website. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture shared "Five African American Suffragists You Should Know" to tell a more complete history of the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Although the 19th Amendment declared that the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of sex, it did not guarantee voting access to all women. Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats, and violence barred African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, immigrant, and poor women. Many African American women could not vote unimpeded until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965—long after the 19th Amendment went into effect. Work continues to protect access to the vote. In the words of Coretta Scott King, "Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation."
  -          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Wagon 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Parade Cape, 1913 
-          National Museum of American History        Votes for Women Button 
-          National Museum of American History        Photograph: Suffragist with banner 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Postcard, 1913 
-          National Museum of American History        Sign, "A Woman Living Here Has Registered to Vote", 1919 
-          National Postal Museum        3c Progress of Women single 
-          National Museum of American History        Inez Milholland Pageant Poster, 1924 
-          National Museum of American History        Zitkala Sa, Sioux Indian and activist 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Postcard 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Paper Cup 
-          National Museum of American History        Merch & Suffrage 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Postcard 
-          National Museum of American History        Button, Votes for Women 
-          National Museum of American History        Anti-Woman Suffrage Postcard 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Postcard 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ida B. Wells-Barnett 
-          National Museum of American History        Pen used to sign the Woman Suffrage Joint Resolution, 1919 
-          National Museum of American History        Alice Paul with Suffrage Banner, 1920 
-          National Museum of American History        Declaration of Sentiments Table, 1848 
-          National Museum of American History        Susan B. Anthony’s Gavel, 1888 
-          National Museum of American History        "Silent Sentinel" Pin (Amelia Himes Walker) 
-          National Museum of American History        Button, Votes for Women 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Sojourner Truth 
-          National Museum of American History        Bust of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Button, 1911 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Button 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage "Objection" Banner 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage "Answer" Banner 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Postcard, 1911 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Button 
-          National Museum of American History        Susan B. Anthony’s Silk Shawl 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Button 
-          National Museum of American History        Woman Suffrage Button 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Votes for Women 
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