What is National Women’s Equality Day?
On this day in 1920, the United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women full and equal voting rights. National Women's Equality Day is held every year on August 26. We celebrate this right every year on August 26.
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Birth of a movement
Many women were refused entry to the convention floor while in London at the World Anti-Slavery Convention 1840, so many women were denied entry to the convention floor, laying the seeds for a women's rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Staton, Elizabeth Cady Staton, Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, along with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, announced plans for the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. On the first day, the conference was held at Wesleyan Chapel in Wesleyan Chapel, 1848. On the second day, the convention opened to men, and some did attend.
During the convention, chiefs unveiled 12 resolutions. They were enumerated in the legislation that guarantees that women should be equal to men economically, economically, legally, and representatively. All but the 9th of the resolutions were approved unanimously by the Senate. The right to vote sparked anxiety. Many women feared that leaving large numbers of their backers to withdraw their funding would cause a great deal of them to withhold their assistance. The 9th resolution passed after much discussion and support for abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the 9th resolution was also passed.
