AMH 2020; M,W
Professor D. Bartha
Women’s Suffrage
In 2005, it was the 85th anniversary of the nineteenth Amendment; the right to vote for American women, whether black, or white. While Abigail Adams quoted “Remember the ladies,” on 1776 in her letter to her husband, John Adams, it was also the same year that the Declaration of Independence was written with the words “all men are created equal.” Women’s suffrage began during the early twentieth century and it was disrupted during the American Civil War between the North and the South in 1861 to1865. There were many white and black women that were successful activists and coordinators of organizations, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony and Stanton