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- **Posted:** 2020-08-18T12:06:05.000+00:00
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"Nobody's free until everybody's free."⁠⠀
American voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who faced violence and intimidation when seeking voter registration in the early 1960s. Photographed here at the 1964 National Democratic Convention, she spent the rest of her life campaigning for universal enfranchisement, civil rights, and the empowerment of women to stand for office.⁠⠀
A century ago today, the ratification of the 19th Amendment saw the vote extended to women in the U.S after a decades-long battle for suffrage. In reality, it was a victory for some but not all; the enforcement of Jim Crow laws in certain states denied millions of Black women the vote, while a lack of citizenship status and discriminatory loopholes marginalised whole communities of Hispanic, Latinx, Indigenous and Asian Americans.⁠⠀
Activists and advocates like Hamer, Zitkála-Šá, Diane Nash, Dolores Huerta, Patsy Mink, and Ella Baker – all pictured here – would continue to seek equitable representation for women, and men, of all races and social classes in the following decades. The cause was greatly advanced with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its subsequent amendments. ⁠⠀
To explore earlier pioneers of women’s suffrage and the 19th Amendment in pictures, follow our bio link for more from gettyarchive.⁠⠀
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