Alice Paul, leader of National Woman’s Party
January 10 is a great time to remember the struggle for women to gain voting rights. On January 10, 1878, members of the United States Senate proposed giving women the right to vote. Needless to say, that idea was unsuccessful. Nearly forty years later, on January 10, 1917, Alice Paul led a protest outside the White House demanding the voting right for women. In 1919, forty-one years after the first proposal in the Senate, both Houses of Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. In August 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, and women, at last, gained the right to vote.
Today, on this January 10, we have a hard time imagining a United States in which women can not vote or own property or join the workforce. Today, take time to celebrate the strides our country has made, to consider what still needs to be done, and to look for ways you can promote equality for all.
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Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
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