| 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women suffrage, 1920. This document features the Joint Resolution of Congress which proposed the constitutional amendment that expanded the right to vote to American women, dated May 19, 1919. The Nineteenth Amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Click here to enlarge. |
