Happy Anniversary to a piece of #herstory. While only a partial step forward in the fight for equality, a step still worth remembering so we can be reminded how far we’ve come, how long these fights for rights have taken, and how layered the fight still is. Sharing this post from womenshistory with all of you: The 19th Amendment was passed by both houses of Congress #OnThisDay in 1919, which began the state ratification process that would lead to the Amendment’s certification in the Constitution on August 26, 1920. But the battle for women’s right to vote didn’t end there. While it represented a major victory for the movement after nearly 70 years of activism, the 19th Amendment did not simply grant universal suffrage for all women. Native American women were not considered US citizens until 1924, but until as late as 1962, individual states still prevented them from voting. Asian American immigrant women were excluded from voting until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 ...