19th Amendment: 90 Years Since Women Have The Right To Vote!
Today we celebrate 90 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Google celebrates this important day with a message below the search bar. Why Google didn’t do a Google Doodle is a mystery!
The Google message states “90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment”. Although the United States of America is a country that was founded on liberty, democracy and equality, women was allowed to vote only after 144 years of the existence of the U.S.
The 19th Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution forbids each state and the federal government to deny any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s sex. The Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.
It was a long journey until ladies got this right that was initially endorsed by President Woodrow Wilson and passed in the House of Representatives in 1918. First this amendment was rejected in the Senate by just three votes but it passed in 1919 after the National Women’s Party fought back the male politicians, telling people to vote against Senators that don’t want this amendment to be passed. The amendment passed with 304 to 89 votes in the House of Representatives and with 56 to 25 in the Senate.
According to Wikipedia, men voted for this cause only because their wives would not sleep with them otherwise.
The last state to ratify this amendment was Mississippi on March 22, 1984, after being rejected on March 29, 1920.
Why didn’t Google use a Doodle to celebrate this important event in the history of the Unites States of America?
You know the Rep. would repeal this if they could!!!
No, it is not the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
The anniversary is August 26, annually celebrated (by decree of the President) as Women’s Equality Day.
Please correct this. I am teaching a women’s history course right now, and you are confusing my students.
When they asked, I had to tell them that GOOGLE JUST FLUNKED the course.
[...] – The father of the Constitution was James Madison. He was the first who arrived in Philadelphia three months earlier for the Constitutional Convention. He wore the blueprint for the new Constitution that was signed on September 17. The thing is that in the initial Constitution, African Americans were not considered citizens and only men were allowed to vote, only men owners of proprieties. The things changed in 1924 when the African American people were granted the right to vote and 90 years ago the ladies also had their 19th amendment voted which gives women the right to express their political views throughout vote. [...]