# @nycvotes on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-03-08T17:51:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NYC Votes (@nycvotes) — https://gondola.cc/nycvotes

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38 years later in 1920, women finally got the right to vote.

Did you know: New York City helped set the stage for women's voting rights across the country? Quick refresher on women’s suffrage in New York:

♀️1848: Declaration of Sentiments, signed at Seneca Falls, New York, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others, calls for women’s rights
♀️1872: First female presidential candidate, New Yorker Victoria Woodhull, runs on the Equal Rights Party line
♀️1910: National American Woman Suffrage Association headquarters moves to New York City
♀️1912: Fifth Avenue parade of 10,000 demands votes for women
♀️1915: 40,000 suffragists participate in New York City’s largest parade ever New York State referendum on suffrage is defeated
♀️1917: New York voters approve votes for women
♀️1919: The 19th Amendment is passed by Congress
♀️1920: The 19th Amendment is ratified, granting women nationwide the right to vote
♀️1924: The Indian Citizenship Act granted Native Americans citizenship and the right to vote (though many states continued to restrict Native voters' access to the ballot)

But the story doesn’t end in 1924. Women and non-white voters were intentionally excluded from participating in elections as voter suppression remained a key issue across the nation.

Voting rights was also a pillar of the civil rights movement. Activism spearheaded by predominantly Black organizers and civil rights leaders culminated in the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, effectively prohibiting discriminatory voting practices. This launched a new era of voting laws aimed at protecting the vote of language communities, voters with disabilities, and many more underrepresented groups.

The right to vote continues to be contested and fought for.

References:
Images via HBO’s The Gilded Age
Historical timeline via museumofcityny 

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD #TheGildedAge #GildedAge #PeggyScott

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