When is National Women’s Equality Day?
Saturday August 26thOn the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women full and equal voting rights on this day in 1920. Every year on August 26, we celebrate this right with National Women's Equality Day.
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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 the seeds for a women's rights movement were not present. The first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, was initiated by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton, along with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, along with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt. The conference was held at Wesleyan Chapel on July 19-20, 1848, and the conference attracted 200 women on the first day. The convention opened to men on the second day, and some did attend.
12 resolutions were presented during the convention. Women should be treated equally to men socially, economically, legally, and representatively, according to them. Of the resolutions, all but the 9th were approved unanimously. The right to vote has sparked skepticism. Many women felt that it would cause large numbers of their backers to withhold their funding, according to several women. However, the 9th resolution passed after much discussion and the support of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
