1919

19th Amendment: Women in Massachusetts earn Full Voting Privileges

Admission ticket to the Massachusetts House of Representatives on June 25, 1919, the day the state officially ratified the 19th Amendment.
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Admission ticket to the Massachusetts House of Representatives on June 25, 1919, the day the state officially ratified the 19th Amendment. Credit: Papers of Florence Luscomb, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Women in Massachusetts earn full voting privileges with the ratification of the 19th amendment

The achievement marks nearly 100 years of fighting for women's right to vote. Other milestones preceded this; between the second National Women's Rights Convention hosted in Worcester in 1850 and the ratification in 1919, women and allies had organized for the right to vote in elections for school board representatives (earned in 1879), and at the municipal level (repeatedly rejected at the state level). After the poll tax for women was abolished in 1892 and turnout for women voters remained low, community groups organized efforts to engage women, including Black women, in social issues. After a long road of advocacy, Massachusetts ratifies the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women full voting privileges.
Sources
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/women-s-suffrage-at-the-massachusetts-state-house.htm https://www.westfield.ma.edu/historical-journal/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/E-Thomas-winter-97-combined.pdf
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