Women Get To Vote, Too

On a cold day in 1917, fourteen suffragists stood in front of the White House holding signs and banners picketing for the right to vote. One banner reads:

MR PRESIDENT, HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY?

With our Election Day only one month away, and a presidential campaign that has created history for its liberation from America's obsession with white and male presidential candidates, it seems a good time to reflect on the success of the women who fought for the right to vote. In 1920, American women were finally guaranteed their opportunity to vote with the acceptance of the 19th amendment to the constitution.

To learn more and see more great photographs, please visit the online exhibition, Women of Protest, at the Library of Congress.

Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.